OTTAWA DELEGATES

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1932, Page 3

OTTAWA DELEGATES

ON THE CONFERENCE Hopes of Better Times WHEN PRICES RISE. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON. September 19. Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon to day, Mr Gullett (Australian Custom Minister) spoke of cor* dial relations having existed between Hie Australian and New Zealand delegates and thanked Messrs Coates and Stewart for their help, lie said; “1 flunk w ■ have obtained as much from Ottawa as w c expected to obtain. Sonic sections of the community may be disappointed, but I think that, from an Australian and Empire standpoint, it has been one of most signally successful the world has ever seen.” Thoy could not expect prices to be miraculously raised to the clouds over night, he said, but undoubtedly, the industrial benefits would be consider able when former price levels returned. Australia and New Zealand would be amongst the first to recover. Alp Coates paid a tribute to the advisers with the New Zealand delegation. All the talk of the meat wars, and of the “Armistice Sunday,” etc., | was the sheerest nonsense. There was' a cordial ft* ding throughout the deliberations, including the f<‘eling of the Irish representatives. Th c dominating factor was the Empire as a whole, ami not an v sectional interests. There would not. he sa d. b£ a com- ■ plet e return 10 prosperity until normal t:ade was resumed throughout the' wo Id. All of the del gates had plac'd ■ first the economic welfare of the whole. Empire. It was a tribute to the dele ; gat<s that they had d finitely established an economic policy for the Empire. Mr Coates added: ”1 would not say ! that wc aro through the wood yet. Th? future calls for the b st in every-I body if we are, ultimately, to come , through; and we w ill come through ! wiih .satisfaction and credit. It is in. us and 1 think we will do it.’’ Air R. \V. Dalton, British T’ade Com- ; mis.-ion-T, of Syda' y, said that he re gaidvtl flu* Ottawa (.'onfcrcnce as a be-I nning. If prosperity came, it would l come with a flood because lln'.v all un- <! istood each other as they had never understood each, other l>eior<*. Air Dalton paid a tribute to Air Coates’s leadership ol Ihe New Zealand delegation, and said that nobody at Ottawa di<l his job better than did Air Contes. Air R. W. Knox, former President of the Melbourne Chamber of Com. m< rce, on behalf of th c Australian Chambers of Commerce, extended i’ral.rnal greetings to the New Zealand (T.ambcrs. He said they would do < vvrything in their power to make a success of the Empire Conference of Chambers cf Commerce af, Wellington, next year.