PROBLEM OF MEAT TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1934, Page 5

PROBLEM OF MEAT TRADE

CONFERENCE IN LONDON

EMPIRE AGREEMENT SOUGHT

HOME GROWERS’ INTERESTS

DEMANDS FOOD SUBSIDY

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright

London, June 26.

The Dominion High Commissioners will meet Mr. J. H. Thomas, Dominions Secretary, and Mr. W. E. Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, on June 27 at the Dominions Office to break ground in the Empire trade problems. They are no closer to a solution of the meat trade. An informal conference with Mr. S. M. Bruce and Sir James Parr, Australian and New Zealand High Commissioners respectively, is a step by the British Government toward finding a way to safeguard the interests of home beef producers, and check the fall in prices in the cattle trade.

The agreement with Argentina provides that there will be no further reduction in supplies unless the Dominions similarly reduce. The Government is free after the expiry of the Ottawa Agreements to restrict supplies from the Dominions, but hopes that a voluntary arrangement will be reached. It is believed that Britain has already approached Argentina. Meanwhile the council of the Central Chamber of Agriculture demands a subsidy of £8,500,000, equivalent to a penny a pound, until the expiry of the Argentina agreement. This would be produced by a levy on imports.