EMPIRE TRADE POLICY

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 January 1930, Page 5

EMPIRE TRADE POLICY

DIAGNOSIS NEEDED

CANADIAN JOURNAL’S APPEAL

(Uuited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.)

VANCOUVER, Jan. 4

Under the caption of “Give Empire Trade a Ohanoe,” the “Vancouver Sun” says : “English statesmen have strutted! and talked all over the world about the great thing the British Empire is, but never a word or gesture about a definite Empire plan. The British Dominions think they have something called Empire. Let England l put a practical man like Lord Beaverbrook to work, and let him surround himself with practical business, political %nd financial mechanics like Lord Melohett, Mr Amery and Mr McKenna, putting the Empire on the operating table to diagnose at and find just what it is, what it can do, and (how the component parts can be made to function with each each other.

“If the Empire is for protection, let us determine which of the Dominions will do the protecting, and 1 what proportion each Dominion will pay for that protection. If Empire is for free trade let us find with whom we can trade, just what goods we can trade, and on what basis the goods can be traded.”