RUSSIAN IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 8

RUSSIAN IMPORTS.

EMBARGO QUESTION.

u INTERNATIONAL MATTER."

CHAMBER OE COMMERCE VTEW

Mention of England's embargo of 80 per cent of Russian goods following the sentences of the British engineers in Moscow waa made ; by Mr. Harvey Turner, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting

this morning,

"I recently gave a statement to the newspapers in which I suggested that New Zealand should support England in her action," said Mr. Turner. "I should just like to know whether the chamber supports that suggestion."

"We are getting beyond our province in dealing with the domestic affairs of Great Britain and Russia," said Mr. J. Hislop. "Britain has taken certain steps which she has considered necessary, and that is the position." ,

Mr. A. G. Lunn.considered the question was an international one and that Britain had given a very fair lead. _ Mr. W. J. Bowdcn: This is an Empire matter. ';";, I.

Mr. Lunn then moved that support should be given the New Zealand Government should it approach England regarding the possibility of similar action against Russian trade. 'I Mr. A. A. Boss: No doubt something has to be done by Britain. It is a very serious matter to. interfere with trade. The effects are far reaching, and I am sorry there had to be eu.-Ji action. • Mr. Harvey Turner, the chairman, said that Russian trade to New Zealand had developed, but trade from the Dominion had not. Up to the present, as far .as one could see, confiscation and repudiation were nothing at all to Russia.

Mr. Lunn's motion, was carried.