CONFERENCE BETWEEN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4264, 29 March 1879, Page 5

CONFERENCE BETWEEN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

The Dunedin]," Prices Current" says :—We learn that the committee of the Chamber of Commerce will have under consideration at ita next meeting the proposa 1 of the Dominion Board of Trade of Canada, that a convention of the representatives of the colonial Chambers of Commeroe shall be held in London dnring the current year. For our own part, we feel some doubt whether any practical good to the colonies in this part of the globe will accrue from aucb a meeting, or from the etlablishment of an annual conference of a like character, which appears to be contemplated by the Canadian promoters <of this movement The needs of the various groups of British colonies, and the course of their trade, differ co essentially, that it is hardly likely they will be found prepared for united action upon any one subject. Conferences between representsUvea of Australasian chambers might, we think, be held with advantage. The forthcoming International Exhibitions to be held in Sydney and Melbourne respectively in 1879 and 1880 offer very suitable opportunity for some such arrangement, and we commend tbe subject to the cansideration of our own and other chambers.