TRADE TREATY
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OPENING OF NEGOTIATIONS (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. Together with Mr. J. C. Collins, secretary of the Industries and Commerce Department, and other departmental heads, the Hon. W. E. Pratten, Australian Commonwealth Minister of Customs, and Mr. Downie Stewart, met in conference this morning to discuss the general trade position between New Zealand and Australia, and to endeavour to reach an understanding as to the imposition of the Australian butter duty, which the Commonwealth desires to be operative immediately. After the morning’s discussion, no arrangements had been made. It is understood that Mr. Pratten urged the fact that the Commonwealth had accommodated New Zealand when the question of the imposition of the new sliding scale of duties on wheat arose last year, but that the New Zealand Government views the butter question as in no way parallel to this. The conference will be continued to-morrow.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 12
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