EMPIRE TRADE

Grey River Argus, 6 October 1934, Page 5

EMPIRE TRADE

NEXT CONFERENCE New Difficulties (Aus. & NZ. Cable Assn.) (Reve.ved October 5 at 7.5 pm.) LONDON. October The “Financial Times’’ says: We think it natural that advantage h uid be taken of the King’s Jubi’ee celebn.tions t<> discuss Empire affairs, bur recommend that a warning be ’issued if fundamental ssr.es are to be laised, a conference of such a iia•.ure will require careful planning lest d: mage ensue. An informal exchange of views however, w- uld clear the air Britain’s exports to Empire destinations rose from forty point sixty-seven per cent. <*f her tota’. exports in 1924 to forty-four point fifty-one per cent, of her total export.- last year. Her imp'its from British countries for the same period increased from thirty po : nt twenty-one per cent, of her total t ■ thirty-six point ninety-one per cent. 11 would be difficult to imagine circumstances in which any parties wou’d imperil this grow! h. MR D. JONES S COMPLAINT. AGAINST CANADX. (Received October 5 a* 19.55 p.m.) VICTORIA (British Columbia). October 5. “New Zealand is getting tired of the way in which Canada is carrying on.’’ so Mr David Jones, of Cante .-bury. New Zealand, told newspapermen here to-i ight. fo’lowing his arrival by the “Niagara..’’ “Unless the spiri* of the Onawa Agreements is more liberally interpreted in th’* countiy it will not be long before w»* will be cmpel’t'd to adopt measure* which will be nroro to our advantage.’’ he concluded.