MORE ABOUT MEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6

MORE ABOUT MEAT

HON. W. NASH REPLIES TO MR COATES BOBBY CALF PROHIBITION RECALLED. COMPARISON NOT FEARED. (By Teletrraph—vress Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In the course of his reply to the Rt Hon J. G. Coates on the subject of meat export restrictions, the Hon W. Nash (Minister of Marketing) says the Government has pressed to the full New Zealand's claims for a favourable market in the United Kingdom. “Without pretending that our problems have all been solved, or for that matter ever will be completely in any final sense,” Mr Nash said, “we had a good measure of success. No restriction or reduction has ever been proposed on killing, . production or export. This year, despite the British Government’s decision to reduce Empire mutton and lamb imports, the Government and the Meat Board have been able, in full agreement, to promise and announce that there will be no restriction here. That was not to suggest that the Government would slacken its efforts to ensure an expanding market ,for New Zealand produce. “We do not want to harp unduly on the past,” said Mr Nash. “The present and future are more our concern. I But when Mr Coates boasts in all his quoted discussions that his was a case of regulation and not restriction, has he altogether forgotten the order he and the Government made in 1934 prohibiting absolutely certain classes of beef and veal exports. Even if he has, I think farmers have not forgotten the bearing of this on their returns on bobby calves, for instance. So much for Mr Coates’s no restriction inaccuracies. The task of tfie Labour Government is to avoid these disastrous measures of previous governments. We have our difficulties and are well aware that we have our shortcomings. Yet we need not fear comparison with those who went before, not even with Mr Coates.”