ARMOUR’S LICENSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1921, Page 4

ARMOUR’S LICENSE.

ANOTHER COMMUNICATION FROM WASHINGTON CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION. The acting-Prime Minister has received a further communication of considerable length from the American Con-sul-General for New’ Zealand with reference to the refusal of the Government to issue a meat export license to Messrs Armour and Company of Australasia. 11 will be remembered that some weeks ago the Consul-General transmitted tc the Dominion Government a protest made by the United States Government against the refusal of the license, the protest suggesting that the refusal was“arbitrary and discriminatory.” The acting-Prime Minister sent a reply io the United States Government through the Consul-General, and attention was then called to the fact that this method of communication, without the intervention of the Colonial Office or the Foreign Office, was contrary to precedent. A cablegram from London stated subsequently that the United States Governs ment had taken up the matter with th® Foreign Office. The communication that has now been received from the Consul-General again sets out the views of the American Government, and presses the protest against the withholding of a license from Amour and Company, W’hich has the backing of American capital. Sir Francis Bell stated last week that the constitutional question raised by these communications was receiving the consideration of the New Zealand Government. In the meantime no further reply had been sent.