QUOTAS ON MEAT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 6

QUOTAS ON MEAT

AUSTRALIAN PROTEST

STRONG GROUND CLAIMED

COL. BRUNNER’S VIEW

(Pur Press Association.}

BLENHEIM, this day

Lieut.-Colonel Af. F. Hmxnov, depu'tyPremiei; of New South Wales, invited by an interviewer to eomment upon Australia's attitude, towards meat quota on exports to (treat, Britain, expressed the strongest, opposition to quantitative- restrictions, and indicated that Australia was opposing the principle on practical grounds. “For years we have been handicapped in our competition with Argentine in that we have had to send frozen meat, while they landed chilled meat in England at a cheaper cost,” he explained. “Britain has always stated that the reason the Argentine got the trade was because chilled moat was better than frozen. We then set to work and have battled, fought, and experimented until we have found that, we ran put chilled meat on the London market. We. have millions ot acres of cattle country to develop, and if wo cannot export we are going to he set back in our normal advancement.”

Colonel Bruxner said that so far Australia could not export very large quantities of chilled meat owing to lack of equipment, but tile trade was capable of steady expansion, and all the country wanted was the opportunity to produce and take her chance on the Home market, unrestricted except by fair competition. Australia had loans lo repay in Britain, and did not want to default, but the only way to pay was in kind. After aft. the Argentine had fewer claims on Britain’s consideration than Australia and ~Now Zealand, which had given their sons by the thousand in {he Great War. The attitude of the Commonwealth was that the right of unrestricted, trade on the Home market was worth lighting!for-, and be believed that it would be worth while lo bang on and decline to accept the quota,,