A REQUEST
FRENCH BOYCOTT THREAT. (Per Press Association.—Copyright). CHRISTCHURCH, April 26. A reported refusal of the Minister for Marketing (Hon. W. Nash), to meet the French Consul or representatives of French wool-buying firms, to discuss the threatened French withdrawal from . the New Zealand wool sales, caused a meeting of the North Canterbury Executive of the Farmers 1 ' Union to agree to send a telegram to the Minister asking him to meet French interests immediately. It was stated that the French, considering that they had been badly treated under the import regulations, had made arrangements to buy wool in countries where they were more favcurably treated.
Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion President of the Farmers’ Union, was called from the meeting, and when he returned, he announced that he had been called away to discuss the position with representatives of French buyers. Unless more favourable treatment was obtained, the French interests said that they would withdraw from the New Zealand market altogether, said Mr Mulholland. It was difficult for the Executive to decide on the rights or wrongs of the case, after hearing only one side, but the French pointed out that they were given less favourable treatment than Germany or Holland, two other large wool-buying countries.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19390427.2.36
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1939, Page 5
Word Count
206A REQUEST Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1939, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in