AFTER BUSINESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 7

AFTER BUSINESS.

MR. THOMAS IN CANADA Cabinet Minister As Commercial Traveller. TOOK SAMPLES, GOT ORDERS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY', September IS. Mr. J. H. Thomas, Minister of Employment, arrived at Liverpool to-day oil his return from Canada. In an interview he said: "I must lay my proposals and any results in connection with my tour before Cabinet and before Parliament. "I' have not asked Canada to take things from us which she produces herself, but I. felt I was entitled to put in a strong claim, having regard to the Home Country being her largest single purchaser of wheat apart from ties of Empire. "When I made a comparison of tho amount she purchased from us as compared with the United States I found Canada very ready to listen to the claim I was urging. Canada knows we are her best customers now and I urged her to reciprocate in the direction I have indicated. "I propose meeting all interested business parties in our country so that tlie necessary steps may be taken to give practical effcct to my efforts. "All this is only consistent with my statement when I took oflice that there in no remedy for unemployment by artificial means. The real solution is to get customers. That I set out to do. I know it is an unusual step for a British Cabinot Minister to play the role of commercial traveller, but tlie cause necessitated it and the result has justified it." Mr. Thomas admitted that lie took out to Canada samples of British coal, of which tests were made. Orders would be placed for British coal as a result. SLOWLY DECREASING. BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED. (British Official Wireless.) EUGBY, September IS. The total number of unemployed persons in Britain on September 9 was 1,149,700. This was 2540 less than in tho week before and 160,277 less than a year ago. -