QUOTA PROPOSALS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1933, Page 5

QUOTA PROPOSALS

STATEMENT ISSUED

REDUCTIONS IN MEAT IMPORTS.

(United Pr ees Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 13. The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a statement detailing arrangements made to reduce meat imports for the remainder of the year. The cnilled beef figures are being reduced by ten to fi.teen per cent below the Ottawa quantities, while frozen meat lias been reduced by twenty per cent. for. the current quarter, and by twenty-five per cent for the next quarter, New Zealand sending no frozen beef in the last quarter of the year, and Australia reducing'her quantity compared with 1932. “

ft is believed that arrangements will he made to improve beef prices, also that there are fair prospects of improving mutton and lamb prices owing to reductions by Australia and New Zealand,

Correspondence has been published be. tween the Hon. G. W. Forbe s and Mr Gates, president of the National Farmers’ Union, resulting in the latter’s decision to send Mr Baxter, the ex-pres-ident, to discuss dairy products with Now Zealand farmers.

PROPOSED N.Z, DAIRY QUOTA.

NEGOTIATIONS TO BE RESUMED.

WELLINGTON, Auiust 12.

At the invitation of the Prime Minister, Mr Forbes, a member of the National • Farmers’ Union of England, is proceeding to New Zealand to discuss with the Dominion fanners the effects of the q[uota proposals and also the position of the farmers in the United Kingdom *

The following cable was received today by Mr Poison, M.P., President of the Farmers’ 'Union:—(“Mr Barder, chairman of our milk committee and milk marketing board, left to-dav by the lonic, to meet Now Zealand farmers in response to an invitation from your Prime. Minister, to the farmers here. We trust his visit will conduce to a better understanding of our position by your members, and that a satisfactory understanding will be reached.