QUOTAS OPPOSED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 9

QUOTAS OPPOSED

Prime Minister States Australian Attitude EXPORTS TO BRITAIN May Be Forced to Seek Foreign Markets By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Hobart, January 16. Addressing members of tiie Hobart Chamber of Commerce, the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, emphasised that the Commonwealth would not concur in any proposal to restrict Australian exports to the United Kingdom. He said that failing a satisfactory issue with the British' Government on the proposed restrictions, Australia would be forced to seek foreign markets. “At. the same time it will be necessary,” he added, “to recast our national economy so as to reduce imports from countries which do not buy from Australia sufficient to enable us to pay interest on our debts to them, and at the same time to pay for imports.” REQUEST FOR DETAILS Britain’s Long-Term Policy NEW ZEALAND ANXIOUS London, January 15. While apparently there will be no further initiative from Australia regarding the future of meat marketing pending Mr. Lyons’s visit, the Australian Press Association learns that Sir James Parr, New Zealand High Commissioner, and Mr. David Jones, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Board, made representations to Mr. J. H. Thomas, Dominions Secretary, and Mr. W. Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, to expedite a conference of British and. Dominion representatives to hear Britain’s proposals for a long-term meat policy. They pointed out that the. New Zealand killing season was now at its height, and exporters were urgently in need of at least a broad indi"ation of Britain’s plans.