IMPERIAL TRADE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 March 1928, Page 5

IMPERIAL TRADE.

VALUE OF PREFERENCE. M A RKETING DOMINIONS’ PRODUCE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, March 14. Mr. Barclay Harvey moved in .the House of Commons a motion in favour of a- vigorous policy of furthering Imperial trade. The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary to the' Dominions, said lie was much struck everywhere he went during his recent tour of the Dominions with the immense progress; in co-operative organisation, as' well as the state and method of production apart from primary production. The Dominions had taken a great forward step industrially.. The Dominions’ tariffs might damage individual British industries, but as long as they continued Empire preference what Britain lost in one direction she ‘ gained in another. Mr. Amery said they had really reached a point when it would be a far creator disaster if the Dominions became free traders, for alongside the protection of her own manufactures Britain at present received protection against the' foreigner in other lines. Everything Britain did to help the growth of the Dominions’ population and to find markets for their produce in England would come hack in the sharve of greater trade. Seven and a half millions of people in Australia and New Zealand were buying move British goods than 129 millions in Europe.