MEAT NEGOTIATIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18503, 15 September 1934, Page 6

MEAT NEGOTIATIONS

LONDON CONFERENCE N.Z. REPRESENTATION MR. I). JONES TO ATTEND (Special to tin' lli'i'alil.) WELLINGTON, this day. Additional representation will he given New Zealand in the highly important meat negotiations which, will take place in London next niuinli, as the chairof the Meat, IN.;-:: r ('oiltrul Board, Mr. I lav id Join" . will be a pa rtn ijiant. It is anticipated that the nlltcnine (J the i outcrcni cs which are to be held will lie a decimal ion of Bril ain s perniaiicui' policy for the regulation ot import a; inns and when this is known whatever changes arc necessary in the production system in the Dominion will he made. The High Commissioner. Sir James Bans who lias keen carrying nil the negotiations up to the pii.-cnt, will remain in charge of the New Zealand ifpi csciiliit ives. but il has been Jell advisable that Mr. .(ones, with his special know ledge of the meat position within the Dominion, should he at his side as adviser. Throughout the whole of the negotiations. Mr. Jones, in his official position, has been in close touch with the Government and it was largely on his initiative that the New Zealand proposal to exclude pork from any scheme ot quantitative restriction was put. forward. Mr. Jones was a. member of the New Zealand delegation at the Ottawa Conference and there assisted in formulating the .scheme which operated from that time for the control of meat exports. He will sail for Britain, via Canada, from Auckland, on Tuesdav.