BRITISH TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1923, Page 7

BRITISH TRADE

WITH EMPIRE OR WORLD?

GREAT PROBLEM FOR ECONOMIC

CONFERENCE.

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(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZLALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 24th September. The "Daily Chronicle," in an editorial on the Imperial Conference, says : "It is all to the good that public opinion should be roused to cope with the Empire offers, for the vast growth, everincreasing population, and productivity of the Dominions arc pnly at the threshold of a great future. We can help to knit together the distant parts of the Empire by improved communications and trade conditions. We need all the trade we can promote within the Empire, but it will be long before it can be a substitute for our trade with all the world; 'therefore we should be cautious before making up our minds about the tariff problems to be raised at the Economic Conference. Some interests in Britain would like to use the Conference as a lever to push protective* schemes. Mr. Bonar Law's Government pledged itself not to make any vital changes in fiscal policy, but we may find ourselves rushed into a position in which an extension of the Safeguarding of Industries Act may not be regarded as such."