Levy Contemplated.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19246, 30 October 1934, Page 2

Levy Contemplated.

EXPORT OF MEAT. DETRIMENTAL TO PROGRESS. (Special to Star). AUCKLAND, Oct. 30. "I cannot say what is going to happen—nobody knows," said Mr. W. H. E. Flint, of Christchurcb, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Refrigerating Co., Ltd., who returned yesterday by the Niagara, after a business trip to England, when asked what was the latest position in regard to the export of meat from New Zealand. "Unofficially, it is considered that the British Government is seriously contemplating a levy," he said, "and even if New Zealand and Australia get preferential treatment in respect to the levy it seems to me that it will be so detrimental to the progress of New Zealand that it would be worth while doing anything within reason, even if it were only of a temporary nature, that would satisfy the British Government, if by so doing the risk of a levy could bo avoided.

"For instance, it would be better to agree to a restriction definitely understood to be imposed temporarily, say, one or two years, the status quo to be resumed immediately afterwards. At the end of such a period conditions might have improved to such an extent that the continuation of any restriction might be unnecessary, and the question of the levy on the Dominion meat would then be a thing of the past."