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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 7

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QUOTA CONTROVERSY BRITAIN AND DOMINIONS STRESS SHIFTS TO CHEESE. (Special to United Press Association, New Zealand). LONDON, July 28. The Dominions delegates are still being called into daily consultation with British Minisetrs on various Empire subjects. Mr. Forbes and Mr. Masters spent this morning with the British Cabinet. Britain has also not yet relinquished her endeavour to secure an agreement with the Dominions for the limitation of supplies of dairy produce, though in view of the fight New Zealand and Australia have put up, and the arguments and data advanced regarding the effects of such regulation of production will have on these young countries, there is a less bitter viewpoint in the Press against them. The Northcliffe and Beaverbrook papers now support the Dominions in the latter’s anxiety not to have their output and development disadvantageously affected, and in this respect there is little doubt that JiTr. Forbes’ statement in his first speech in London, since reiterted by him and Mr. Masters, that any curtailment of revenue from exports might have repercussions seriously threatening the solvency ‘of the Dominion has had its influence by securing a better hearing for the Dominions. To-day the Standard points out that British dealers in foreign bonds admit that the Governments that should be supported by London loans are confined to the British Dominions, none of whom had defaulted, while outside them had been a widespread default, especially by South America. The fight by Mr. Forbes and Mr. Masters regarding quotas has not yet concluded, but the outlook is more favourable. The chief Press hostility is from the Midlands, Scottish, and Southwestern parts of Great Britain, where the agriculturists are most strongly The failure of the World Conference te arrive at any international unanimous conclusion regarding the raising -of price levels of produce appears to have directed attention once again to the possibilities of concerted action within the Empire. It is now rumoured that the United Kingdom is weakening on tho quota for butter, and that Major Elliot has asked for a private conference to-morrow with the New Zealand delegates to discuss a quota on cheese only. At a meeting of farmers at Taunton there was a general demand for the revision of the Ottawa agreement, the farmers alleging that they cannot live against Dominions’ competition in cheese. Major Elliot has reaffirmed that the matter of concessions in the tariffs on British goods into New Zealand would not meet his requirements in regard to his request for a quota, his concern being the protection of British farmers against excessive importations. EXPORT QUOTAS A CAMOUFLAGED POOL WHEAT EXPERT’S OPINION Received Julv 30, 5.5 p.m. REGINA, July 29. At the world grain conference to-day Major H. G. L. Strange, of Lenn, Alberta, grain company statistician, declared that the proposals for export quotas were only ‘’ a slightly camouflaged form of compulsory pool.” He added that the pooling of wheat in Canada and the formation of the United States Federal Farm Board “have been disastrous failures and have led to antagonism in European countries. ’ ’ Mr. L. C. Brouillette, president of the Saskatchewan wheat pool, and Mr. L. D. Nesbitt, of the Alberta wheat pool, registered protests claiming that the remarks about pools were unjustified.