A NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTER'S VIEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11590, 22 May 1903, Page 5

A NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTER'S VIEWS.

ARGUMENT FOR ciIEAP CABLE RATES.

(Received May 22nd, 1.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 21

Mr B. R. W«e, the .Attorney-General, in an interview on Mr Chamberlain*

speech, said that while it must be remembered the trade between Great Britain end foreign countries is very much larger than the tra-de between Great Britain and her colonies, he felt convinced it was pofsJble to take *ome wteps toward a closer commercial union with the Empire without either expoying ourselves to any more active hostilities on the part of foreigners than wo were exposed to at present, and without making any great disturbance in British comnurce, or without interfering with the rights of the component parts of the> Empire, to preserve in essentials their own fiscal policies. He could not help noticing how difficult it was to the question* of closer r.nion when the means of communication were co needlessly difficult. If we spent on the cable services the subsidies which we fipond on the mail subsidies, we pbould -have, the cable rates so reduced that Mr Chamberlain's speech would have been presented verbatim on the morning after it was delivered.