MEAT IMPORT DISCUSSIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1934, Page 4

MEAT IMPORT DISCUSSIONS

MR. D. JONES TO VISIT ENGLAND.

ADVISOR FOR SIR JAMES PARR.

(By Wire —Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night.

Additional representation will be given , New Zealand in the highly .important meat negotiations which take place in London next month, as the chairman of the Meat Export Control Board, Mr. D. Jones, will be a participant. It is anticipated that the outcome of the conferences which are to be held will be the declaration of Great Britain’s permanent policy for the regulation of meat importation, and when this is known whatever changes are necessary in the production system in the Dominion will be made. The High Commissioner/ Sir James Parr, who has been carrying on the negotiations up to the present, will remain in charge of the New Zealand representations, but it has been felt advisable that Mr. Jones, with his special knowledge of the meat position within the Dominion, should be at his side as adviser throughout the whole of the negotiations. Mr. Jones, in his official position, has been in close touch with the Government, and it was largely on his initiative that the New Zealand proposal to exclude pork from any scheme of quantitative ’ restriction was put forward. Mr. Jones was a member of the New Zealand delegation at the Ottawa Conference, and there assisted in formulating the scheme which operated *from that time for the control of meat exports. He will sail for Great Britain via Canada from Auckland on Tuesday.