MEAT SITUATION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20065, 23 March 1935, Page 18

MEAT SITUATION

FORTHCOMING LONDON CONFERENCE BOARD'S RESOLUTION By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON. March 22. At a meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board to-day, it was decided, after consultation with the Minister of Agriculture, to recommend that permission be granted for the export of certain classes of cow and boned beef to the United Kingdom. The board’s detailed recommendations will be announced by the Minister of Agriculture shortly. During a discussion on the forthcoming long-term negotiations in London relating to meat imports, the Board unanimously passed the following resolution:— "That this board is very strongly of the opinion that the Prime Minister and Mr Coates should represent New Zealand in the forthcoming long term discussions with the British Government in London. The board is very concerned as to the great importance and far-reaching possibilities of the coming discussions. It is firmly of the opinion that Mr Coates with his experience of the Ottawa discussions would greatly strengthen the delegation, and the board considers it is of the utmost importance to ensure that this Dominion should send the strongest possible delegation to London. QUOTAS OR LEVIES? By Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, March 22. A resolution that the executive had not sufficient information to justify its expressing an opinion whether quotas or levies or both should be applied to meat exports, and that it ask the Meat Board for information was carried today by the Southland Provincial executive of the Farmers Union. ‘‘l consider that the Farmers Union should stand solidly against both quotas and levies,” declared Mr B. Clearwater. Mr W. Couser contended that it was time New Zealand made a stand. New Zealanders were too easy-going. The Australians w’ould not stand it and Canada and Argentine had got a better bargain than we had. The president (Mr W. J. A. McGregor) : I think things will come out all right, and we may trust those who are in charge. The exchange rate may be hitting us back a bit now, but if it had not been for it we might have been in queer street.