FOOD MISSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1943, Page 4

FOOD MISSION

BRITISH EXPERT ARRIVES IN NEW ZEALAND. -J DEHYDRATION OF BUTTER AND MEAT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 25. Heading the British Government food mission in Australia and New Zealand, Mr W. Bankes Amery, principal assistant-secretary to the Ministry df Food, has arrived in New Zealand. The mission, comprising Mr Amery and Mr R. C. Hinton, left England last October, intending to come to New Zealand by way of America. Shipping delays, however, necessitated a first call to Australia, which was reached some weeks ago. Mr Hinton is still in Melbourne. The main work of the mission, Mr Amery said, was to hold discussions with officials of both countries concerning the sale and export of foodstuffs to Britain. They would also be largely concerned in the establishment of dehydration plants for meat and butter . Matters with which the mission was concerned had previously been negotiated by correspondence, he said, but the Government had thought it wiser to have men on the spot who were fully posted with the state of affairs on both sides of the world. With Mr Hinton, Mr Amery said, he would remain in Australia and New Zealand till the end of the war. He left tonight for Wellington, where he will meet the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Sir Harry | Batterbee. ■, i