POINTS FOR CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1923, Page 7

POINTS FOR CONFERENCE

"BRITISH C6MM"ERdIAL VIEtV.

(Iteceiyed. i4th September, 11 im.)

LONDON, 13th September. .The.Council of the. British' Chamber* of Commerce report extends a welcome to: the ;D6minidn representatives at the . Imperial' Economic Conference. The chambers believe that representations regarding preferential tariffs -should be closely examined. They consider that efforts should be directed to the immigration of young men aged from .18 to 22 years; who, owing to the present wage system, are being paid for work which before the war was performed by lads of 14 to 16. This system' is causing the degeneration of young men. It would be better, therefore, that they emigrated to the Domimoiiß. The association Btrongly favours penny postage arid speedier maii services. . Delays in the mails tend to drive trade from the Dominions to foreign countries. The association considers that there are great possibilities.-in air communications, and urges the Government to give every assistance to- the demands for the immediate extension of wireless^ either by Governemnt or private enterprise. It favours.the codification of laws relating to patents apd trade^m&rks, and also the assimilation^ of the: commerciaUavvs,-! of the Empirey and the improvement and unification of certificates of origin. It requests the abolition of double income tilX^ :. ... : .... ,i : ;\,\ „•;„■ ;..,,, ;Pj : I>ealing with education, the report ilrges the yitd. importance of the uniform 'teaching throughout the Empire of.the essential unity of the Empire and its great possibilities. Empire history textbooks should be rewritten. It urges the uniform celebration of Empire Day. •