MEAT FOR BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9

MEAT FOR BRITAIN

Regulation For First Quarter of 1935 DOMINIONS’ SHARES Cut in Imports From Other Countries By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, January 16. The Ministry of Agriculture announces the completion of arrangements for regulating the imports'of meat for the first quarer of 1935. Imports of foreign chilled beef will be 90 per cent, of the imports for the first quarter of 1931-32 ; and frozen beef, mutton and lamb 65 per cent. Dominion arrangements are based on the first quarters of 1932, 1933 and 1934 as follows :—■ Beef and Mutton and veal. lamb. Pork. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. Australia IST,OOO 450,000 10,700 Xew Zealand .... 160,000 800,000 75,000 Canada 19.250 — 8.600 South Africa .... 17,000 — — South Rhodesia .. 51,000 — — PRODUCERS ANXIOUS' Plight of Home Industry REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT (Received January 17, 7.50 p.m.) London, January 16. At a. meeting of the Farmers’ Union Mr. J. 11. Wain, president, referring to the difficulty of obtaining remunerative prices for farm products, said that trade agreements with foreign countries were responsible for the poor results, and they should be terminate" at the earliest legal date. The Ottawa Agreements should be revised to achieve unification of policy on the basis that in British markets the home producer should come first, the Dominions second, and the foreigners third. The union, after a debate, carried the following resolution by acclamation :— “That this meeting expres anxiety at the deplorable position of the live stock industry in view of the agreement with the Free State and imports from the Dominions and foreign countries being in, excess of market requirements, and presses the Government to issue a statement directly Parliament reassembles. Unless speedy recognition is given the principle that the home producer is entitled to first place in his own market under conditions ensuring the economic well-being of live stock producers, virtual bankruptcy of the industry at an early date is inevitable. The “Daily Mail,” in a leader, says that the Farmers’ Union proceedings indicated a breakdown in the policy of marketing schemes and quotas for British agriculture. The farmers seek the earliest termination of foreign trade agreements and a revision of the Ottawa agreements though they arc prepared to give good preference to the Dominions, if they are fairly treated. "Nobody blames Mr. Elliot, Minister of Agriculture. Imports were never adequately controlled. Ministers should adopt a clear-cut tariff policy.” TO VISIT BRITAIN Australian Board Chairman (Received January 17. 10.50 p.m.) Brisbane, January 17. The Australian Dairy Export Control Board has appointed its chairman, Mr. T. Plunkett M.L.A., to visit Britain to investigate export and marketing problems in view of the early expiration of the Ottawa agreement. EGG QUOTA NEXT Statement in Australia Sydney, January 17. The Canberra correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald” says that proposals for control by quota of imports into Britain of Australian eggs will be made to Australia by the British Government within a few months.

It is believed likely that the quota will be greatly below the record export of twenty million dozen eggs from Australia last year.