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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 5

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SHIPMENTS OF MEAT ABSENCE OF RESTRICTION QUOTA PLAN PRESUMED OFFICIAL ADVICE LACKING

i.;, . ..(Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. On the facts available to meat exporters,' the export trade is now back to its 1934 position before any export restrictions were imposed, except that permission has still to be obtained from the Meat Producers’ Board before pigs of baconer weights may be shipped. ,It is ’ assumed by meat exporters approached on the subject that quota agreements with Britain arc in existence, hut on such a liberal scale that the maximum shipments permitted under them have not yet been approached.

“The whole situation is a mystery, remarked an exporter. “We were carrying on under Agreements that should now have expired, but no announcement has been made as to whether they have been renewed, or fresh arrangements made. Neither the Government nor the Meat!Board has.totals anything-’’

’. *• Silence of Mf. 1 Nash’

It is thought in the trade that if the apparently free export of meat were the result of a trade agreement made by the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, in England, the result would have been unnounced, if not by him, then by the British Government. Canada has arranged an agreement and South Africa is getting one, but no report has come from Mr. Nash.

Among "men seen in the trade, the opinion was held that Mr. Nash has not completed an agreement under which meat is how being exported. Ihe fact that the British Government had not signified any departure from its policy of regulating its imports of meat suggests that New Zealand is still working on the export quota.

In the circumstances, the absence of any official announcement is described as not only curious but unfair to those engaging in the export trade.