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forget our responsibilities in this hemisphere.

as a Government or a people,

3. Kor are we,

going to forget your problems in relation to

No one who thinks about this

our membership.

can ignore the historical background to the

New Zealand United Kingdom relationship,

which is not only one of

Monarchy, of related institutions, of close

which /ha

and conscious kinship, but has also, since the

last quarter of the 19th century, been very

close in economic terms. We know how very

dependent New Zealand is on her exports of

lamb and dairy products to us. Awe have

recognised from the outset that unless adequate

arcangements are made for your dairy products,

your dairy industry, whose exports total

just over 20% of your total exports, and/which and which the great majority une

1 at present destined for Britain,

will face grave difficulties. We realise

that this is not merely a balance of payments

problem, but also for you a social and human

problem. This is one of the reasons why I

was so anxious to come here and see it for

myself.

4. Now you know, and neither we nor the

previous Government have ever hidthe fact

from you or from cur own public, that we

accept the Common Agricultural Policy as part

of the existing fabric of the European Com-

munities which we are aspiring to join. We

did not create the Common Agricultural Policy

we would not have created it in its present

form but we must accept it if we want to

join. The Common Agricultural Folicy reflects

the interests of the farming populations of

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