TARIFFS DISCUSSED

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 19 May 1928, Page 9

TARIFFS DISCUSSED

Economic Commission At

Geneva.

BRITAIN SEEKS REDUCTION

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

GENEVA, May IS

Opinion is very divided among the members of the committee appointed by the Economic Commission to consider t lie question of tariffs. The British delegates are pressing for reductions on particularly selected groups of commodities. They are insisting that within each group raw, semi-linished and finished products shall be placed on the li>t t<> include woollens, worsteds, iron, steel and engineering products.

A French delegate, in opposing this, said a rigid principle courted failure. The Australian delegate, Mr. F. L. McDougall. supported this point of view. He said there were non-European countries to consider, and he reminded the committee that any action the League might. take in the economic sphere would affect its prestige in one way or another.

CANADA AND LEAGUE. PREMIER MAY ATTEND. (Australian Tress Assn. — United Service.) OTTAWA, May IS. The central executive of the Lcamie of Nations Society of Canada lias endorsed ;t suggestion that the Prime -Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, shall attend the next Assembly of the League at Geneva as the Dominion's representative. MOVE ENDORSED. PRESSURE ON MR. KING. (Australian aud N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, May IS. Sir Herbert Ames' suggestion that the Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, should attend the next Assembly of the League of Nations was endorsed by the central executive of the League of Nations Society in Canada. It is believed here that the Premier will go.