BRITISH FOOD MISSION
PLANS IN NEW ZEALAND (P.A.) Auckland, Feb. 25. Heading the British Government food mission in Australia and *New Zealand, Mr. W. Banks Amery, principal assistant-secretary to the Ministry Food, has arrived in New Zealand The mission, comprising Mr. Amery and Mr. R. C. Hinton, left England last October, intending to come to New Zealand by way of America lelays, hgwever, necessitate’ a first call to Australia, which was reached some weeks ago. Mr. Hinton is still in Melbourne.
The main work of the mission, Mr. Amery said, was to hold discussions with officials of both countries concerning the sale and export of foodstuffs tc. Britain. They would also be largely concerned in the establishment of de-hydration plants for meat an<j butter. Matters with which the mission was concerned had previously been negotiated by correspondence, he said, but the Government had thought it wiser to have men on the spot who were fully posted with the state of affairs on both sides of the With Mr. Hinton, Mr. Amery said, he would remain in Austral a and New Zealand till the end of the war.
H-! left to-night for Wellington, where he will meet the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Sir Hany Batterbee.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 50, 2 March 1943, Page 1
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