MEAT CONTRETEMPS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1935, Page 5

MEAT CONTRETEMPS

BRITISH RESENTMENT

AUSTRALIAN STATEMENT

DENIAL OF AGREEMENT

REGULATION OF MARKET

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. London, June 22. A remarkable Anglo-Z ustralian meat contretemps has occurred as a result of Dr. Earle Page’s statement at Melbourne yesterday that a cable received from the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, stated that an agreement had been reached: whereby the whole of Australia’s production of export mutton, lamb and beef for the July-September period could be shipped to the United Kingdom, say 3 the Sun-Herald service. , The Dominions Offi-e- and the Board of Trade declined to comment, but the tone of Dr. Page’s statement is resented. It is gathered that Governmental telegrams are passing in an endeavour to clear up the situation. Evidently Mr. W. E. Elliot, British Minister of Agriculture, gave certain explanations to Sir Henry Gullett, which were obscure or misunderstood here or, misinterpreted in “The Wheat Act policy of earmarked tariff and levy, the proceeds of which go to the British producer, is the policy working best and the policy we desire to develop and extend,” said Mr. Elliot, speaking at-Leicester. “These problems cannot be solved by the old-fashioned tariff of which the proceeds go to the Exchequer. If Britain is going to use a tariff it must be low rather than big* l - hl order to keep food prices down. Moreover the proceeds must be applied to develop agriculture. “The Wheat Act principle is now being applied to meat negotiations. We say that overseas people who are sharing the advantages must 'assist us to regulate the market because if .they fight our attempts to regulate the supply the scheme will be unworkable.” ?