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SIR ROBERT HORNE'S PLEA
"BY TRADE "WE SPRANG, BY
TRADE WE LIVE."
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (EeceLved 4th November, noon.) LONDON, 3rd November.' ' Lord Hunsdon presided at the first public meeting or. tho Empire Industries Association. He said that tho object of the association was to extend Empire preference and the safe-guard-ing of Home industries. Sir Robert Home, the chief speaker, (aid that Free. Trade offered no remedy for Britain's loss of trade. "From trade," he said, "the Empire sprang, and by trade it will be sustained." Britain had lost her pride of place as «n exporting country to the United States. The only bright spot in the pre•ent depression was the augmentation ef Britain's trade with the Empire. '""Obviously the place to look for markets," he said, "is among our own p»ople oversea, instead of flirting with our competitors and enemies." Sir Eobert advocated tho foundation cf great Empire settlements to absorb the surplus British population, and concluded by appealing to tho Imperial Conference to make reciprocal arrangements for closer union in tho mutual trade.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 11
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