BELGIAN TRADE TREATY.
7 COMPLAINT BY FARMERS. ORGANISATION IGNORED. //.- [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Government's action in entering into a trade treaty with Belgium without consulting the Farmers' Union was criticised by the Dominion executive of that organisation to-day. Concern was expressed in a letter from the Auckland branch of the union that the recent treaty had been sprung so suddenly on the public. The branch suggested that proprietary interests handling farm produce, which was not usually exported by the fanners themselves, had received first-class 1 treatment and that practically no consideration had been given to farm products in which any real proportion of the value went to the farmers. Mr. Feisst (Waikato) said it was another instance where the Government ignored the Farmers' Union and associated itself with the manufacturers and importers' associations. He moved that a protest be made to the Government. This was seconded by Mr. Mellsop, but the motion was lost.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21099, 5 February 1932, Page 6
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