NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17457, 29 April 1920, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

SHACKLES OF CONTROL..

SIR T. MACKENZIE PROTESTS.

SUPPORTED BY THE PRESS. Ey "olograph— Pjess —Copyright. (Received 6.30 pjn.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, April 27. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, in a letter to the Times, urges an immediate reduction in the price of mutton, and expresses dissatisfaction at the continuance of the control of colonial products. Trade, he says, must not bo imperilled by bureaucratic action. ' The newspapers strongly support Sir Thomas Mackenzie's attitude in regard to the reduction in the price of meat, and also a free market for butter. The Daily Telegraph states that the Government has made a start, even if small, in the matter of preference. It predicts that no future Chancellor will have courage to repudiate this policy. Nevertheless Sir Thomas Mackenzie has rendered a public service by drawing attention to specific causes of irritation. Public opinion in England will support his claim that the game justice should be meted out to the peoples of the Dominions as to the people here. The Telegraph demands a searching investigation into wool prices. It hopes that the Prince of Wales' visit will keep alive and develop the relationships between British nations. " New Zealanders," it states, " may be assured that we follow the Prince's progress with a lively sense of the • part they took in sustaining and developing the Imperial spirit.