KEYNOTE AT OTTAWA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1932, Page 13

KEYNOTE AT OTTAWA

DOMINIONS AND BRITAIN

ECONOMICS OF EMPIRE

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, 28th January.

Tho President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Kunciman/and Major Elliott, of the Treasury, accompanied ( the Secretary of the Dominions, Mr. J. H. Thomas, when he met a delegation representing industrial and commercial interests this afternoon to discuss the preparations for the Ottawa. Conference.'1 : -' ■ \: :*':■' . ■ ■■ -■ ,• ,; ......

; Referring to the development of secondary industries in'the Dominions,: Mr. Thomas said that British industry should . recognise that the encouragement.of such industries'was inevitable, and they Should harmonise their policy with that development. ■-■•■? • Reciprocity must be the keynote of all dealings between tho parties to tho Conference. The Dominions through their association with the British Commonwealth' received a great advantage, not only in regard. to defence, but also through the fact that their loans ranked as trustee securities here.

Sir Gilbert Vyle, chairman of the British Committee .on Empire Trade, urged that as' the Conference would be mainly economic the Government dele! gation should be accompanied by trado and industrial advisers. Mr. Thomas welcomed the formation of the British Committee on Empire Trade to which the GoVernment could have ready access oh technical .questions, and promised to give sympathetic consideration to Sir Gilbert Vyle'a suagestionL. W •■' '■.-j-!.: ■; ;V \ .If.: [ »