POSITION EXPLAINED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18163, 10 August 1933, Page 7

POSITION EXPLAINED

THE MARKETING BOARD

7 SOME WORK TO CONTINUE

(British Official Wireless.) Roc. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 9. The Dominions Office’s. official announcement that the Empire Marketing Board, as such, will be discontinued after September 30, states that certain economic statistical services, namely the 'periodical market intelligence notes and world surveys of production and trade, will be continued and financed on a -co-operative basis as part of the work of the Imperial Economic Committee.

It Is also contemplated that .‘the executive council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureau will be invited to consider what research activities, should be conducted in future on a co-operative basis. '

SCHEMES ABANDONED

. LONDON, August 2. I It appeaxs. that the last-minute .efforts to save the Eiupire Marketing Board from extinction at the end of September will be fruitless, as a result chiefly of the disinclination of the Dominions to contribute further to its cost. , { - As the schemes-that were before the Cabinet committee concerned With the board’s existence, it is stated, have been rejected, including one advanced by the Colonial Office, by which the board, with its organisation of research departments, and committees on Empire market pro- ' motion, on which some of the best brains • have been enlisted • without payment, would have been used to advantage. Plans to link the board with the Imperial Museum have also been abandoned. It is hoped that some of the board’s research activities will be maintained under the Colonial Development Fund, and the Advisory Council for Agricultural Research, despite the impossibility of continuing its general functions.- -