AUSTRALIAN MEAT MARKET.

Shannon News, 6 April 1923, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN MEAT MARKET.

♦- WANTED A RECIPROCAL TARIFF. EFFECT OF EUROPEAN CHAOS. (Received Friday, 2 a.m.) V • SYDNEY, April 6. In speaking at the State Chambers o t 'i Conwxverce lantnual conference luncheon/Mr. Bruce, Federal Premier, said if be went to London as Austialia’s representative on the Imperial Economic Conference, he would tails frankly to English statesmen on the unreasonable inequalities of trade between Austral a and Britain. He referred particularly to the Australian meat industry and the danger of its total disappearance. He added that nothing was being done to help us to preserve this great industry. London shops were stocked with Argentine meat while Australia was unable to get a footing in the market. He quoted figures, showing that in 1920-21, Australia gave trade preference .to Britain of £8,750,000, while Britaill’s preference to Australia in the same year was to the extent of merely £45,000. The president, in opening the conference, said the commercial outlook bad improved on last year, but he stressed, the effect of conditions m Central Europe on Australia, adding that unt ! l peace was restored there, and industries set going again, it would be impossible for Australia to put herself on a really sound basis, as many markets, which were available to us before the war, were not available now.