BRITAIN COMMITTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 645, 25 September 1933, Page 5

BRITAIN COMMITTED

REPRESENTATIVE QF THE BRITISH FARMERS IN N.Z'. ADJUSTING TRADE BALANCE Hamilton, Saturday. "I think the quota on dairy produce imported into the United Kingdom is inevitable as the Imperial Government is already committed to it," said Mr. T. Baxter, a representative of the National Farmers' Union of England and "Wales, to a Waikato Times representative to-(lay. Mr. Baxter is visiting New Zealand at the invitation of the Government to put the British farmers' case before those of the Dominion. The quota system already applied to wheat, meat and bacon. Mr. Baxter said he believed the Imperial Government would give the Dominions preference in the quota just as had given them a freq market against a 15 per cent. penalty on foreign butter and cheese. It would probably grant the Dominions preference in quota quantities. The United Kingdom butter market had reached the saturation point and drastic action was necessary. New Zealand might lose in the quantity of her produce exported but would benefit by the better price which would come with a regulated market. An Alternative Product Mr. Baxter pointed out that New Zealand had an excellent potential alternative product in baconer pigs fqr the United Kingdom. There was ropm for eonsiderable expansion. The bacon restriction scheme in the United Kingdom fixed quantity on a basis of supply over an average twoyearly period. The Home pig producers were allowed to bid to supply as much of this total as they wished. The balance was given to overseas producers to supply. Thus every pig bid at Home meant one less to be imported. The Government had provided for some expansion of baconer pig imports from the Dominion as well as increased Home production. The type of pig wanted was nice and streaky with plenty of lean meat in it, and. from 150 to 1751b. dressed weight. "This potential expansion of New Zealand baconer pig exports to the United Kingdom is most emphatically worth examination," concluded Mr. Baxter.