EMPIRE MEAT TRADE

Grey River Argus, 13 August 1935, Page 5

EMPIRE MEAT TRADE

ARGENTINE’S BIG SHARE Views of Australian Premier (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received August 12. 8.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 12. The Prime Minister. Mr J. A. Lyons, was given a tumultuous reception here at a “Welcome Home” luncheon given by the Unit-ed Australia Party to-day. Replying to the speeches, Mr Lyons said that it had been gratifying to find such wide approval in Australia of the short term meat agreement that had been reached in London. This agreement, he said, involved a subantin’. advance in the volume of the Commonwealth’s meat trade with the United Kingdom. Me eoirinued: “It would be to the advantage of the Empire if th e British Government, in contemplating a icnewnl of the Argentine meat agreement with countries in a similar position to the Argentine, showed less concern for the foreign products and more concern for Great. Britain and for the Dominions like Australia. T recognise that the United Kingdom, in making the agreement with the Argentine, had no intention of departing from the principle that was subscribed to at Ottawa.” Mr Lyons described the agreement which Brittain concluded with the Argentine as being the principle of the Ottawa Agreement, and he expressed great confidence that it would not be renewed in its present form. He urged that, at the earliest possible date, the Australian meat producers should follow the example of the New Zealand meat producers, and should set.up a small, but representative, Meat Expott Control Board.