DAIRY PRODUCE QUOTA

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 25 September 1933, Page 4

DAIRY PRODUCE QUOTA

“INEVITABLE” IN BRITAIN HOME GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE PROTECTION TO FARMERS PREFERENCE TO* DOMINIONS (By Tel^gifiph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, Sept. 24. Kit T. Baxter, [representative of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, stated at Hamilton yesterday that in his opinion a quota on dairy produce imported into the United Kingdom was inevitable as the British Government was already committed to it. The Government oould not recapture markets lost through other countries establishing manufactures through the war, so it was endeavouring to adjust matters by cutting down imports as much as possible and making the greatest use of home farm lands. If production was to be increased, home farming had to be made profitable. British farmers were induced to operate the milk scheme on a definite promise of the Government that it would protect them from gluts in dairy produce, sent from overseas.. . Mr Baxter said he believed the British Government would probably grant the .Dominions preference in quota quantities. The United Kingdom butter market had reached saturation point and drastic action was necessary. New Zealand might lose in the quantity of her produce exported but would benefit by the better price which would come with a regulated market.

MR BAXTER’S HAWERA VISIT

ARRIVAL ON WEDNESDAY. Mr Thomas Baxter, the representative of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, who is visiting New Zealand in response to an invitation extended to the union by the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes when he was in London recently to send out one of its members for the purpose of discussing with Dominion fanners the effects of the quota proposals and the English viewpoint, will arrive in Hawera on Wednesday nextduring the course of his tour of the North Island.

Owing to Mr Baxter’s proposal to make only a short stay in South Tararliaki the itinerary arranged for his visit is necessarily brief. He is to be the guest of the Farmers’ Union at a private dinner at the White Hart Hotel on Wednesday, when there will be present the Mayor of Hawera, the president of the Farmers’ Union, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and representatives of the Dairy Federation and similar organisations. At 8 p.m. a function is to be held in the Cartlon Tearooms to which the chairman, one director and the secretary of each dairy company in South Taranaki is invited. On Thursday morning Mr Baxter will visit dairy’ factories and farms in South Taranaki, and on Thursday afternoon he will leave for Wanganui.