DOMINION PRODUCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 July 1941, Page 8

DOMINION PRODUCE

SHIPMENT TO AMERICA. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 12 noon.) LONDON, July 18 The United States is giving intensive consideration to a proposal thal New Zealand and Australian primary produce should be shipped to tho western seaboard of America, enabling equal quantities of American produce to be shipped to Britain, thus avoiding the long haulage from the Antipodes. This is revealed by Mr Harry llopLins, President Roosevelt's personal representative. Mr Hopkins emphasised that the whole problem was one of shipping and ho said it was clear that, if there were sufficient ships, Now Zealand and Australia would ship their produce direct to Britain, but it must not be forgotten there was a similar shipping problem between New Zealand, Australia, and the United States as between Britain and the United States. Before his departure for London, he discussed the question with Messrs F. Langstone and J. G. Coates, who are in tho United States, and was determined to see that Britain got enough lood. This would call for a major change in tho United States’s agricultural economy. Steps were being taken to ensure an adequate supplementation of supplies from New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Every American ship moving anywhere in tho world noiv regarded the war effort as its primary purpose and in future the closest co-operation between the British and the American authorities would 2xist.