QUOTAS COMING.

Mt Benger Mail, 21 March 1934, Page 2

QUOTAS COMING.

CONTROL ESSENTIAL. BRITISH M.IVS ADVICE. Wellington, March 12. “There is no quota yet, but there is no doubt in my mind of the need for control, and 1 do not think there is any doubt in the mind of your Government, which needs to be supported fully and whole-heartedly in thiq matter” said Sir John iSanderaan Allen, M.P. for Liverpool, making his final public address in New Zealand at a meeting of the New Zealand Club to-dav.

He proceeded to enumerate the reasons why control over British food imports was essential. Britain, he said, had five times more people engaged in agriculture than in New Zealand, and its Government must consider the agriculturists. and had to see to if that the prices of dairy products were higher than to-day. But how could this be attained, he asked, while there was too much of them? His Majesty’s Government was going to restrict production at Home, and imports from foreign countries, but it would have to be fair play all round, and he wanted New Zealand, the most loyal of the dominions, and the one in which they took the deepest interest, to recognise the difficulties of the times. “We hate quotas because they are a rotten, miserable production of to-day, but we have to accept the inevitable, and accept the judgment of Ills Majesty’s Government, which is in a much better position to judge of the situat ion.” There had been a great increase in dairy production in New Zealand of recent years, while Australia had been swamping Britain j with its products, and New Zca- j land would have to be careful, for ! if there was no protection, Aus-1 Indian production would preju-1 dice them.

Representing the well-known publishing firm, The Bodley Head, Mr John Lane had some interesting thing’s to say about books when he was interviewed in Christchurch a few days ago. He is on a world tour, which up to the present, has occupied about 15 months. Up till the time he reached Australia ho had not spent more than ten days in any one place. Describing his visit to Japan, Mr Lane said the Japanese were very fond of English literature. One week-end he took a trip into a mountain district in Japan. A party of half a dozen commercial students overtook him and, in the custom of Japanese, they told him what they were. “ I

naturally had to reply and tell them who I was,” said Mr Lane. “When they learned I was from a publishing firm, they spoke classical English in a way I could never hope to attain.” ,