British Food Mission Reaches Dominion
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. Heading the .British Government food mission in Australia and New Zealand, Mr. W. Bankes Amery, principal assistant to the Secretary to the Ministry of Food, has arrived in New Zealand. The mission, comprising Mr. Amery and Mr. R. C. Hinton, left England last October intending to come to New Zealand by way of America. Shipping delays, however, necessitated a first call to Australia which was reached some weeks ago. Mr. Hinton is still in Melbourne. The main work of the mission, Mr. Amery said, was to hold discussions with the oflicials of both countries concerning the sale and export of foodstuffs to Britain, while they would also be largely concerned in the establishment of dehydration plants for meat and butter. Matters with which the mission was concerned had previously been negotiated by correspondence, he said, but the Government had thought it wiser to have men on the spot who were fully posted with the state of affairs on both sides of the world. With Mr. Hinton, Mr. Amery will remain in Australia and New Zealand until tho end of the war. He left to-night for Wellington where he will meet the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Sir Harry Batterbee.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 48, 26 February 1943, Page 5
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