IMPORTS TO BE REGULATED
DOMINIONS’ MUTTON
AND LAMB
BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO APPLY QUOTAS
LONDON, February 9. Announcing that the Empire Meat Council after a number of meetings, the last of which was held yesterday, failed to reach a unanimous conclusion about mutton and lamb imports, Mr R. H. Cross, Secretary for Trade, in the House of Commons moved that the import regulation order be approved which, he said, would enable quantitative regulation to be applied. Mr Cross added that the Government could look to Australia and New Zealand to co-operate, ensuring that any quotas agreed to should not be exceeded. The Government had not yet decided what quotas were expected, but he would be able to make an early statement. The main object would be to secure stability in the market as far as it was affected by imports, though they were not the only factor, the market also being affected by the price of wool and by-products of sheep. The House approved of the order without a division.
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Southland Times, Issue 23740, 11 February 1939, Page 7
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