PRIMARY PRODUCERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 12

PRIMARY PRODUCERS

WELCOME TO HOME REPRESENTATIVE REGULATION OP EXPORTS. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 22. Representatives of the primary producing interests of New Zealand extended a welcome to-day to Mr T. Baxter, representing the National Farmers’ Union cf England and Wales, Mr Poison presiding. Mr Poison said that it was not intended to have a formal discussion, but merely to offer a sincere welcome to Mr Baxter. It was felt that nothing but good could come of closer association between the New Zealand farmers and the representatives of their fellow farmers in Britain. The problems of each were identical, and a heart-to-heart talk would enable each to appreciate the other’s problems. Mr W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Control Board, said that he had not made any statement in regard to quotas or tariffs since his return from England in case he should embarrass Mr Baxter. After a number of others representing other organisations had spoken, Mr Baxter said he hoped to have an opportunity of explaining the whole position of the Home producer and how essential it was that various commodities that arrived on the English market should be regulated in some shape cr form. Any holding off in regulation which could he done till the expiry of the Ottawa Agreement, in his opinion, was only holding off the inevitable. What New Zealand was being asked now was to come in with the rest of the countries with a view to removing the glut and restoring prices to a level at which all could live.