WEST INDIA AND CANADA

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 76, 29 March 1912, Page 7

WEST INDIA AND CANADA

RECIPROCITY NEGOTIATIONS. By Telegraph.— Press AdbOdatlon.-Copyright. (Received March 29, 11 a.m.) OTTAWA, 28th March. West Indian delegates ar® conferring with the Canadian Government on the matter of reciprocity on an extensive burls. Jamaica is not represented at the conference because Jamaicans fear retaliatory tariffs on the part of tho United 1 States. [Tho Royal Commission appointed in 1909 to investigate and report upon the measures that may bo taken for the promotion of closer trade relations and for the development of mutual trading faculties between Canada and the Weßt Indies, reported in September, 1910. The Commissioners were convinced that tho preferential policy initiated by the Canadian Government had been of very great benefit to the sugar trade, both in the West Indies and in Canada, and they advocated the grant of a reciprocal S reference, except in the case of Jamaica. n the subject of steamship services they found the existing twelve-day service unsatisfactory, and they recom' mended a weekly service to the larger ports and a fortnightly one to the smaller islands. They were in favour of public ownership and operation of the telegraph cables in the West ladies, and they suggested a scheme by which, they believed, the Imperial Government could, at ( a littfe cost, if at all, exceeding the- ambunt now paid in subsidies, give to the West Indies a greatly improved service, and at the same time reduce the rates.]