EMPIRE MARKTING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 296, 9 August 1932, Page 4

EMPIRE MARKTING

Unanimous approval was given at a meeting iri Ottawa of 50 representatives of Empire primary produeers to a motion acknowledging . in the , highest terms of praise the service rendered by the Empire Marketing Board. The meeting might at the same time have acknowledged the debt owed to Great Britain for establishing and.maintaining the board at an annual cost of £600,000. Here is one of those hidden preferences granted by- the Motherland which the Dominions sometimes overlook. For the board's activities are of real benefit.to each and all of them. Some few months- ago Britain was considering limitjng the board's functions on:the score of economy. It would.be retrogression if, this were allowed to happen, although Britain should not be expected to carry

more than her due share of the 1 expense. Apparently the produeers' representatives recognise this and are suggesting to their respective Governments that a joint plan be devised to maintain and even extehd the board's activities. That would. be constructive expenditure in' the best sense. New Zealand should support such a plan and, if the Government would be embarrassed at present to find its proportionate. contribution, the export boards, , should consider using part of their accumulaited reserves for the purpose. Such expenditure .would be justified and appropriate on every conceivable ground.