Restoring Dairy Produce Exports

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7278, 4 October 1933, Page 6

Restoring Dairy Produce Exports

MR BAXTER HAS FINAL TALK WITH LEGISLATORS.

Per Press Association,

WELLINGTON, Last Night,

Mr I. Baxter, representative of the Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, to-day addressed a meeting of members of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives, together with heads of Government departments, on the subject of tho application of a quota on dairy produce from New Zealand. The meeting was held in private, but it is understood that, Mr Baxter broke very little fresh ground, confining his remarks largely to statements which have already been reported. Mr Baxter, it is stated, mado out a strong case for restriction of exports from New Zealand, pointing out that unless the farmers were prepared to aeeopt some form of quota they would have to look forward to lower prices.

Following the meeting, Cabinet met to discuss various aspects of tho question, but the Minister of Finance (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coaees) stated this afternoon that there was nothing further he could say for publication. Mr Baxter, who left by the Makura this afternoon for England, via America, expressed keen appreciation of the hospitality extended to himself and Mrs Baxter while in the Dominion, and said ho would never forget the people or the country. Mr Baxter was tho guest of the Gov-ernor-General and Lady Blcdisloe at luncheon at Government House to-day.

Dairy Board’s Attitude to Quota DEFINITE OPPOSITION REPORTED (Special to “Times.”) WELLINGTON, Last Night. It is reliably reported that the Dairy Board is definitely opposed to the imposition of any quota on New Zealand export of butter and cheese.