TRANS=TASMAN TRADING

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1934, Page 9

TRANS=TASMAN TRADING

HANDICAPS TO BE DISCUSSED AUSTRALIAN MINISTERS’ VISIT. THE FRUIT REPORT PREMATURE. BETTER UNDERSTANDING SOUGHT. • By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Jan. 30. . Representing the Federal and New South Wales Governments, the Hon. F. H Stewart, Federal Minister of Customs, and the Hon. R. W. D. Weaver, New South Wales Minister of Public Works and Health, arrived to-day en route to the . Waitangi ceremony. Later both will spend some time in the Dominion conferring with the Government*. Mr. Stewart said he intended to discuss embargoes on the interchange of products between the two countries and the question of collaboration in the export of primary produce to . Britain. There was room for regulating and spreading shipments of fruit, butter meat. In reply to a question, he said the report that Australia would relax the embargo on New Zealand apples and pears was rather premature. The embargo would probably be modified. The . main object of his visit was to promote a better understanding and goodwill. Mr. Weaver is accompanied by Mr. J. Merrett, Commissioner of the Meat Industry in Sydney. They intend to study the chain system of killing, which was introduced in the Dominion last year.The Minister is also interested in the hygienic distribution of milk and hopes to investigate it, particularly Wellington’s municipal system.