EMPIRE TRADE

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1929, Page 7

EMPIRE TRADE

AUSTRALIA AND CANADA. (United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) OTTAWA, October 10. “If Canada expects to increase her trade with Australia, there must be a number of revisions in the existing trade treaty between the two countries, so that it will not be all a onesided affair,” so the Australian Trade Commissioner, Mr Haynes told the Quebec Division of the Manufacturers’ Association. He said that he felt that the treaty, requires readjustment, for it never was contemplated in Australia it would work out to be such a one-sided affair. No one would suffer more if this treaty were not broadened than the Canadian manufacturers, and it would be a calamity, not only to Canada, but to the whole Empire, if for any reason/ the treaty were scrapped, WOOL INDUSTRY. BRISBANE, October 11. During the discussion upon the estimates, in the Legislative Assembly, Premier Moore alluded to the serious position of th© wool industry. He expressed the hope that an Empire-wide marketing scheme for wool would be evolved, bringing in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. He recognised that no scheme of organised marketing could be forced on Australian pastoralists, but he was now in communication with graziers’ associations throughout the Commonwealth, and the Federal Ministry, suggestng that this problem should be taken up without delay, in order to try to put the wool industry on its feet again.