TRADE PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 69, 19 September 1938, Page 11

TRADE PROBLEMS

OTTAWA AND EMPIRE

FUTURE OF MIGRATION^

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. "The difficulty of assisting manufacturers adequately is potentially the gravest single factor operating against the continuance.of the Ottawa policy of trade," said Dr. W. B. Sutch, Secretary to the Minister of Finance, on his return'from the British Commonwealth Relations Conference. \ Discussion had shown fairly general i agreement that the Ottawa policy had assisted the British countries but had been an, irritant to the rest of the i world arid had added to the difficulties of the northern and central European countries in depriving them of part of their markets in the United Kingdom. Manufacturers in the Dominions and the United Kingdom felt thatv the Ottawa agreements had assisted them. Discussions on migration revealed that wholesale transference of people was a thing of 'the past, and that in future operations should be on; restricted lines. Probably, this would involve the transference of trained workers to countries where they were most needed. One suggestion was for an organisation with Empire scope, perhaps as the result,, of initiative by trades union organisations, to supervise the training of men in skilled crafts and to assist in placing them in jobs. , ■ :■'.' New Zealand's dairy marketing methods were being watched with interest by Australia and other parts of the Empire, said Dr. Sutch. v