MEAT SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20104, 10 May 1935, Page 9

MEAT SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN

DANGER OF FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS HOMELAND’S OBSTINATE ATTITUDE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 8. The Australian Press Association says that negotiations betiveen Australian and British Government Ministers over meat imports by Britain are threatened with failure unless the British attitude is quickly modified. No further meeting of Ministers has been arranged as in the present situation discussion would be pointless. Unless either side retreats from its present position regarding a long-term agreement, obstacle after obstacle confronts the delegation. The main issue is the fact that Mi' Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade negotiated the Argentine Treaty which tends to make him imDlacable towards the Dominions which are seeking modification of that treaty. Mr J. H. Thomas, Dominions Secretary, is clearly unwilling to concede much while Mr Walter Elliot’s views are so intertwined with the political ramifications of his policy that there is little hope even in that rationalistic quarter. Indeed, the Australian delegation feels that there is little prospect of a new seal for Commonwealth exports pending the reconstruction of the British Cabinet.