MEAT DISCUSSIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 7

MEAT DISCUSSIONS

AUSTRALIANS AT LONDON / WARM WELCOME GIVEN POSITION’S POSSIBILITIES HOPES FOR CO-OPERATION By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 10.30 p.m. London, March 22. The Australian delegation to discuss the problem of meat exports arrived and was met at Dover by Mr. S. M. Brace, Australian High Commissioner, who had a long talk with Mr. J. A. Lyons, Australian Prime Minister, en route to London through sunny Kentish fields abounding with spring lambs that were an apt reminder of the subject of Mr. Lyons’ first task at London. Many Australians greeted the party at Victoria station. Lord Sarikey, the Lord High Chancellor, and Mr. J. H. Thomas, Dominions Secretary, were present on behalf of the Cabinet, and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Dominions Under-Secretary, on behalf of the Dominions Office. The newspapers welcome Mr. Lyons, publish photographs of him and give details of his mission. “The clash of Anglo-Australian meat interests,” says the Daily Telegraph, “can only be solved by personal discussions in a spirit of intelligent conciliation. If Mr. Lyons stands on his rights under the Ottawa Agreement he can certainly stop the imposition of a levy for the present, but the British Government in that case can impose those quantitative restrictions to which objections are raised in Australia.

“Neither country is likely to negotiate in : —'orance < these possibilities, but the expedients of Britain delaying action by a temporary subsidy and of Australia ceasing to export mutton are signs of willingness to work out the difficulties in a friendly manner.”