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MEAT EXPORT SCHEME House Approval Held Necessary

(From Our Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, March 9

Not only Government but also Parliamentary approval will be necessary before the controversial Meat Board market diversion scheme for lamb exports can be implemented.

A meat amendment bill will have to be prepared once objections by meat exporters to the scheme have been resolved and further details have been worked out.

Because of, as much i as in spite of, the fact ! that the scheme is not an emergency plan to meet any pending marketing crisis, the Minister of Overseas Trade (Mr Marshall) believes that legislation will probably he put before Parliament during the coming session. First, however, he expects the Meat Board to resume efforts to hammer out a measure of agreement with private exporters who are continuing to resist the proposal. "The exporters agree with the principle of market diversification,” said Mr Mar-i shall. “But they have not accepted this scheme—only its objectives.” The Minister said meat exporters had not approached him seeking his intervention I

ion their behalf. “Quite proI perly, I believe, they have ikept away.” Direct talks between the i exporters and the GovernIment are expected only if the I Meat Board, having now secured the backing of the producer sector of the industry, cannot win exporters’ approval for generally-accept-able arrangements. Mr Marshall said there was no great urgency about the diversification plan except that the Government would welcome the introduction of a working and workable scheme as an earnest to Britain during bilateral talks on future market access that no over-supply from the Dominion wag intended. Once adopted, the diversification scheme would probably mean very little change in the present pattern of meat marketing except that those exporters selling exclusively jto Britain would have to attempt to supply other mar- '; kets, with a proportion of ; their shipments. Many exporters would not I j immediately be affected at all. II In spite of past losses, pre-

sent sales of lamb to North America by the Meat Export Development Company were proving profitable, and the Government had issued no “ultimatum” to the industry.

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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 3

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MEAT EXPORT SCHEME House Approval Held Necessary Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 3

MEAT EXPORT SCHEME House Approval Held Necessary Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 3

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