MARKETING METHODS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 7

MARKETING METHODS

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND MOVE TO MEET MUTUAL PROBLEMS. VALUE OF EXCHANGE OF VIEWS. (Recd This Day, 10.10 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. The possibility of permanent New Zealand representation on the Australasian Agricultural Council, in order that both Dominion should meet mutual problems on a common basis was voiced at the Agricultural Council conference. The suggestion came from the Hon E. J. Hogan, Victorian Minister of Agriculture, who emphasised the value of an exchange of views between New Zealand and Australia and was advanced after the conference had heard from the Hon W. Lee Martin (New Zealand Minister of Agriculture) a helpful outline of New Zealand’s marketing methods. Replying to tentative Australian suggestions that the council should meet in New Zealand at some future date Mr Lee Martin gave an assurance, if such an eventuality occured, that Australians would receive a warm welcome.

Delegates generally expressed the view that the presence of the New Zealand Minister at the conference had been most helpful in the discussions and at the termination of the conference commended Mr Lee Martin for his co-operation and useful contribution to the discussions.

Delegates also expressed admiration of New Zealand’s marketing legislation, as outlined by Mr Lee Martin and of New Zealand’s ability readily to implement its marketing policy. Even a change of Government would not cause the repeal of marketing legislation, Mr Lee Martin confidently remarked. When the Hon F. W. Bulcock, Queensland Minister of Agriculture, remarked that guaranteed prices might in the future give the Reserve Bank some headaches, Mr Lee Martin smilingly retorted that his Government would not be worried by that. Mr Lee Martin said that the conference discussions had given him an insight into many Australian legislative difficulties inseparable from the Federal constitution, with six States still retaining legislative powers within their own territories.