MEAT REGULATION

Northern Advocate, 23 March 1935, Page 10

MEAT REGULATION

NEW ZEALAND ENVOYS BOARD’S UNANIMOUS WISH. MESSRS FORBES AND COATES. [Per Press Association. — Copyright.} WELLINGTON, This Day. During a discussion on the forthcoming long-term negotiations in London relating to New Zealand imports, a meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board was unanimously of opinion that the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, and the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, should represent New Zealand in the discussions with the British Government in London.

It was stated that the board was concerned as to the importance and far-reaching possibilities .of the forthcoming discussions. It was agreed that Mr Coates, with his experience of the Ottawa discussions, would greatly strengthen the delegation. The board considered it of the utmost importance that the Dominion should send the strongest delegation to COW AND BONE CLASSES. EXPORT RECOMMENDED. [Per Press Association.—Copyright.! : WELLINGTON, This Day.

The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, at a meeting yesterday, decided after consultation with the Minister of Agriculture to recommend that permission be granted for the export of certain classes of cow and bone beel to the United Kingdom. The board’s detailed recommendations will be announced by the Minister, the Hon. C. E. Macmillan, shortly. , QUOTAS OR LEVIES. UNION WANTS INFORMATION. [Per Press Association. — Copyright j INVERCARGILL, This Day.

A resolution that the executive had not sufficient information to justify the expression of opinion whether quotas or levies, or both, should be applied to meat exports, and that it ask the Meat Board, for information, was carried yesterday by the Southland Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union.

FRIENDLY SPIRIT. MR LYONS IN LONDON. LONDON, March 22. London newspapers today welcome the Australian Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, who has arrived here, and publish his photograph and details of his mission. The “Daily Telegraph” says the clash between British and Australian meat interests' can be resolved only by personal discussions, in a spirit of intelligent conciliation. If Mr Lyons stands on his rights under the Ottawa Agreement, he can certainly stop the imposition of a levy for the present, but the British Government in that case can impose those quantitative restrictions to which objections are raised in Australia. Neither country is likely to. negotiate in ignorance of those possibilities, says the “Telegraph,” but the expedience of Britain delaying action by a temporary subsidy and Australia ceasing to export mutton are signs of willingness to work out difficulties in a friendly manner.