QUOTA QUESTION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8497, 3 August 1933, Page 3

QUOTA QUESTION

BRITISH AND DOMINION ASPECTS AGRICULTURISTS CONFER DIFFICULTIES DISCUSSED (Continued foot of next page.) LONDON, August 1. A suggestion has been made that, as the subject of quotas and restrictions on imports of produce into Britain affects only the farmers in the Mother Country and the Dominions, and is not a matter which involves any trade controversy over tariffs, representative farmers in Britain and the Dominions should get together and discuss their respective difficulties.

Consequently Mr G. W. Forbes and Mr R. Masters conferred with Mr Gates, president of the National Farmers’ Union, and Mr Baxter, chairman of the Milk Marketing Board, and discussed the interests of agriculturists in Britain and New Zealand. On the one hand, it is said that the farmers of Britain do not appreciate what quotas and restrictions mean to the Dominion producers. On the other hand, the later have no true realisation of the competition which the British agriculturist and dairy farmer have to face from abroad. It is understood that the Minister of Agriculture, Major W. E. Elliott, at presnt ies giving this matter consideration. Undoubtedly he is impressed with the representations made to him by the New Zealand Prime Minister and Minister of Industries and Commerce, Messrs Forbes and Masters, as to the difficulties that would be created in the Dominion and the effect on farming there if restrictions were imposed.