TRADE WITH THE EMPIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1922, Page 5

TRADE WITH THE EMPIRE.

PROMOTING PREFEHEKCE. THE CLAIMS OF LIVERPOOL. ij:ci Plvc.l [>.:-M v.vi.i LONDON. -May 1. Mr. H. A. Harwell. Premier of South Australia, in the course of a sneecli today, nelvocated joint British imd Australian action to promote prefercntir.l trade. He proposed Mint Britain org.iui?e a conference nf C'hainbcre of C'ioimerce of tW Mmiiirr. "You (jet pi>ni>rencr- of Premier." Imt not of cvptii".-.." he haid. "You nr-i'.l h conifreiiee rf experts capable iif trail" BeccsMti'-- and formulnting mutually ac]vanißpeon~ scheme!-." Mr. ThmiiH- Iconic, chairmen <-,f \'.-,- Jlerscy Dork* flnd Harbour Bonn!, pointed out 'lint Liverpool nnsii's-ierl unequalled facilities for receiving, fctorirj;. and distvibutinp Australasian prnduei , . Tne cold totnllerl over riaht jnillion cubic feet, while Manchester had only three million, and Hull a million. He noticed thnt Australian Ministers were visitin;r Hull, but there was a tendency to ipnure Liverpool, wliicli covered one-third of Uriti.-b imports and exports. — (A. and NX Cable.) "TO WHAT BASE USES." SINKING THE AUSTRALIA. TO MAKE A SHARK PROO7 FENCE. iße'-clrcri li.yo p.m.) SYDNEY, this .lay. Mr. Huehes denies the report ihat 'llic H.M.A.s. 'Australia is to be f.in'.-.- He says her future is uncertain until the Teauli's of the Washington Canforen'.-o are definitely known. The- Ramhviek (.'ouueil i-doptcd a motion that t lie Commonwealth 1> , . , to sink tlm Ati-tralin ofV to be utilised us a pier for erecting a shark■proof fence—i.\. and X.Z. ( tiKe.i