MEAT IMPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1939, Page 7

MEAT IMPORTS

POSITION IN BRITAIN DOMINIONS OPPOSING RESTRICTION. HOME FARMERS INSISTENT DEMANDS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, February 2. The Australian Associated Press says that the United Kingdom’s hopes that the meeting of the Empire Meat Council on January 13 would result in an agreement by Australia and New Zealand to restrict their mutton and lamb exports will not be realised.

The Austrlian and New Zealand delegates to the Meat Council decline to discuss the position. It is understood that Lord Bingley representative of the Home farmers on the Meat Council, informed them that farming in the United Kingdom was perilously situated and the farmers were very near rioting. The National Farmers’ Union was obliged to demand of the Government the imposition of compulsory restrictions unless the Dominions accepted voluntry restrictions. The Dominions replied that they refused to recognise the United Kingdom’s right to demand restrictions.

No evidence had been produced to prove that curtailment of the Dominions’ products would lead to better prices for home farmers and they emphatically declined to accept a scheme providing for percentage reductions, but expeetdd the council to arrive at an agreement where Dominion exports would be little affected during 1939.