DOMINION DAIRY EXPORTS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 20 February 1933, Page 4

DOMINION DAIRY EXPORTS

SUGGESTION OF RESTRICTION ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT NEED FOR CONSULTATION. MESSAGE SENT TO LONDON. The resolution of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board expressing the reluctance of the industry to accept any restriction of dairy produce exports from the Dominion lias been forwarded by the Government to the High Commissioner in London, Sir Thomas Wilford, for transmission to the proper quarter. The Government lias identified itself with the opinion of the board that there should be no restriction on exports, and lias intimated that it is willing to co-operate in evolving a scheme for the marketing of dairy produce (states the “Dominion”). “The Government,” the Prime Alinister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, aniiounc6cl oil Saturday* u lias becu bt consultation with the Dairy Producers’ Board on the important, though still tentative, and unofficial suggestions from London regarding, the regulation of butter imports to the United Kingdom. The board has expressed oy a resolution the reluctance of the industry to accept any curtailment of our exports, the maintenance of which is so closely bound up 'with the Dominion welfare. The Government will leave no stone unturned in safeguarding the interests of producers. “It is emphasised that no ottic-iai request for limitation of our exports has been made by the British Goveinment. Indeed, it is, expressly stipulated m the Ottawa agreement between the United Kingdom and New Zealand that our dairy products • shall be guaranteed entry into the United Kingdom without restriction or duty for at least three years. . " - j “Nevertheless, there is clear need for consultation and co-operation by Empire countries to meet the present abnormal situation and to safeguard the future. We are willing and anxious to play our part in such co-operation. It is too early yet to say in what form proposals may take shape We .have conveyed to the High Commissioner the resolution of the board, and have identified the Government with the view that there should be no restriction on our .exports. To this we have added the intimation that the Government will co-operate in working out a scheme for improving the position so far as marketing of dairy produce is concerned. In this matter we will keep in closest touch with the-. Dairy Board.”

View of Manufacturers CRITICISM OF THE BOARD LOWER TARIFF REQUEST. WELLINGTON, Feb. 1. ' The New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation in a statement strongly criticises the attitude of the Dairy Board outlined in its recent statement urging the Government to reduce the duty on British goods to the extent of tlie recent increase in exchange^ The federation claims that the dairy industry appears to have drifted blindly into a predicament which threatens to be ruinous, and asks how the dairy farmers in New Zealand could benefit by a reduction in New Zealand tariffs.