BETTER EXPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 4

BETTER EXPORTS

RESTRICTIONS IN PROSPECT PREFERENCE GIVEN TO CHEESE STATEMENT BY MINISTER. CABLEGRAM FROM BRITISH GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 28. The New Zealand Government has been advised by the British Government that the butter market will be the next to be restricted by export difficulties. The Minister for Agriculture, Mr J. G. Barclay, said today that the outlook for sending goods away from New Zealand was not good. In a recent cablegram the Government had been advised that in Britain the outlook for lifting butter in New Zealand was black. “Apparently Britain can take all the cheese we can produce,” added the Minister, “but the chances of shipping butter are slim. This probably means that a further request will be made to farmers to change over from butter production to cheese. The Government intends to cable the British Government to obtain fuller information as to what is required, so that a definite statement can be made and farmers can be told what they will be required to do.” The Minister is visiting the South Island, to investigate the position arising from the restrictions on the export of meat. He will hold a discussion with back country farmers at Timaru on Monday.

SUPPLIES FROM U.S.A. SOUGHT UNDER AID MEASURE. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 28. The English authorities, it was learned today, have placed dairy and meat products at the top of a .list of agricultural commodities wanted under the British aid measure. The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Claude R. Wickard, testified to this at the close of hearings of the Senate Appropriations Sub-Committee, which approved of a record-breaking annual farm bill. A Cabinet member said the first inquiries from England, after the passage of the British aid legislation, were for cheese, evaporated milk, dried milk, eggs, pork, lard and vegetable fats. There was a possibility that there might be a call for American tobacco, because British supplies were now low.