PRIMARY EXPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1939, Page 6

PRIMARY EXPORTS

BRITAIN AS SOLE BUYER NEGOTIATIONS IN PROGRESS. WAR POLICY PROPOSALS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.» WELLINGTON, This Day. “Negotiations with his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom for their purchase of our primary products were commenced immediately on the outbreak of war and are still continuing, said the Minister of Marketing, Mr Nash, in his statement in the House. “If the negotiations are satisfactorily completed the New Zealand Government will become the sole buyer in the Dominion of all butter, cheese, meat and wool, and these products will be sold direct to the United Kingdom Government, who will be the sole distributor in the United Kingdom,” he said. The Minister also said that measures to give the Government full financial control of the resources of the Dominion would be introduced on either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.

“The basis of our representations is that the procedure to be adopted should provide that no advantage or profit shall accrue to anyone on account of war conditions,” the Minister said. “The determination of New Zealand and therefore, the objective of the Government,” Mr Nash declared in concluding, “is to make its major contribution, whatever sacrifices that may entail, to the prosecution of the war. “The Government has already announced its policy for the, defence of the Dominion through its contribution to the cause of the democratic countries, but as great a contribution may be made in the Dominion by organising our resources in such a way that our kinsmen and other friends overseas may be provided with tne necessary food and clothing for themselves and. their families during this period of trial. “The Government has determined to '.use all the nation’s resources to this end —personal, material, and financial.”