FARMERS’ DELEGATE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 22 September 1933, Page 2

FARMERS’ DELEGATE

WELCOME TO MR BAXTER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 22. Representatives of tho primary producing interests of New Zealand extended a welcome to-day to Mr Thomas Baxter, representing the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, presiding. Mr Poison said it was not intended to have a formal discussion, hut merely to offer the sincerest welcome to Mr Baxter. It was felt that nothing hut good could come of closer association between tho Now Zealand farmers and representatives of their fellow farmers in Britain. The problems of each were identical and a heart-to-heart talk would enable each to appreciate the other’s problems. Mr IV. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, said he had not made any statement in regard to quotas or tariffs since his return from England in case he should embarrass Mr Baxter. After a number of others representing other organisations had spoken, Mr Baxter, said he hoped, to have an opportunity of explaining the whole position of the Home producer and how essential it was that the various commodities that arrived on the English market should be neglected in some shape or form. Any holding off in regulation which could be clone till the expiry of the Ottawa agreement, in his opinion, was only holding off the inevitable. What New Zealand was being asked now was to come in with the rest of the countries with a view to removing the glut and restoring prices to a level at which all could live.