LONDON TRIP PREVENTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 6

LONDON TRIP PREVENTED

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING DUTIES IN DOMINION M INISTBB'S EXPLANATION (Parliamentary Rcportor.) WELLINGTON, this day. The necessity for completing the supervision of iho new Marketing Deipnrlinonl and negotiations in eonnection with zoning the dairy industry will prevent .Mr. George A. Duncan, the acting-Director of the Mnrketitig Department, from accompanying the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Xasli. to England. The Minister stated to-day thai he desired Mr. Duncan to go with him, but in view of the position in New Zealand, he had reluctantly decided that it was more desirable for Mr. Duncan to remain in the Dominion to direct and supervise the inauguration of the marketing of butter and cheese under the guaranteed-price plan. ''There are matters of importance and urgency at present before the Marketing Department and mure are likely to arise within the next few months, and consideration of these would, lo some extent, be prejudiced if the director of the department and myself were both absent from the Dominion," said Mr. Nash. "One of the problems is the supply of butter boxes and cheese crates. In addition, there is the important "work which faces the Executive Commission of Agriculture within the next few months in the rationalisation of cream cartage and the zoning of dairy factory supplies. This would definitely be facilitated if .Mr. Duncan is aide to assist the other two members of the commission.

"To a large extent, the overseas marketing policy for this season has been settled and the soiling agents have been appointed, and I feel, therefore, that -Mr. Duncan can be more useful in New Zealand. It is, however, probable that when the marketing arrangements for the next season have to be reviewed in the light of the results and experience of this season's operations and of the future policy determined by the Government after my visit to the Old Country, it will then lie desirable for Mr. Duncan to visit England and study in detail the work of the sales division of the Marketing Department."