EMPIRE UNITY

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 11

EMPIRE UNITY

Economic Group MEMBERS OF PEERAGE London, July 23. Thirty-six members of the House of Lords, including Viscount Allenby, Earl Beatty, the Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Ellbank, and Earl Jelllcoe, have formed an Empire economic group and elected Lord Melchett as their chairman. A meeting of the group passed a resolution pledging Itself to the utmost endeavours to promote Empire economic unity. COLONIES’ IMPORTS Trade to Foreigners London, July 14. Lord Stradbroke, chairman of the British Empire League, presiding at its dinner to delegates to the Colonial Conference, cited the decrease of £15,500,000 in the colonies’ and dependencies’ imports in 1927-28, as Indicating lower purchasing power. He added, however, that £11,500,000 was foreign, and only £4,000,000 Empire trade. •. The United Kingdom’s exports to the colonies, he said, showed £1,000,000 increase. Nevertheless, the colonies purchased £100,000,000 worth of foreign goods yearly. He hoped that the conference would result in a transfer of portion of this trade to the Empire.