EXCHANGE OF VIEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 21 April 1938, Page 10

EXCHANGE OF VIEWS

DOMINION AND AUSTRALIA. PRIMARY INDUSTRIES.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 20. The Prime Minister to-day cabled to the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia accepting the Commonwealth Government’s invitation for New Zealand to be Ministerially represented at a meeting of the Australian Agriculture Council, which will meet at Canberra on May 12. The New Zealand representative will be the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. Lee Martin) who will be accompanied bv the Director-General of Agriculture (Mr A'. H. Cockayne, 1.5.0.) and the Minister’s private secretary (Mr W. R. King). The Minister and party will leave for Sydney from Auckland on May 2.

The Council of Agriculture is representative of all the State Ministers of Agriculture and the appropriate Federal Ministers. In his invitation the Australian Prime Minister said his Government hoped advantage would be taken at this meeting to exchange views on many matters of mutual interest associated with the primary industries in Australia and New Zealand.. Mr Cockayne will be the New Zealand Government’s representative on the Standard Committee of Agriculture, a committee of technical experts which will meet at Canberra on May 10 and 11. Mr Lee Martin will return to New Zealand on the Awatea leaving Sydney on May 23.