IN THE COMMONS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 8 December 1931, Page 7

IN THE COMMONS

GENERAL QUESTIONS. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE. (Received 8, 2.20 p.m.) London, i>oc. ?. In the House of Commons, Sir John Gilmour, rape,rug to a question suggesting that South African and Australian eggs were selling as new-lain, pointed out that mo country af orig u had to be marked on all imported eg o -, thus enabling the consumer to decide whether they were describabl-i as newlaid Sir John Gilmour informed other questioners that he could not make any further statement as to the wheat quota question, pending negotiations with all the interests concerned. Ho would not be able to make a statement before the recess. Mr. Cruickshank: Will you consider introducing a resolution approving of the principle of the quota in order to facilitate the negotiations! There was no answer. Mr. MacDonald, in answer to a question by Mr. J. H. Thomas, said that he would make a statement on tfia application of the quota system to Canadian and Australian wheat before the recess. Sir John Simon, replying to a question, said that it was not within the Government’s province to propose a new chairman for the Geneva disarmament conference in place of Mr, Henderson. Sir J. Davidson: Has not Mr. Hen derson offered to resign seeing he does not represent in a general sense the House of Commons! Sir John Simon: The choice was not that of the House of Commons but of the League Council, which unanimously favoured Mr. Henderson. Mr. Elliott told a questioner that no negotiation had been begun for a further review of international finance with special reference to the American one year moratorium in regard to war debts. In answer to a further question he said that he did not share the view that import duties and Empire preference need await the evolution of a monetary policy based on the gold standard. EARL GREY ON THE TARIFF. (Received 8, 2.45 p.m.) London, Dec. 7. “There is a difference between a tariff ns necessary in dealing with an emergency and its imposition as a deliberate and settled change of policy,” said Lord Grey at the Eighty Club dinner. “If nny section of tho Conservatives succeeds in pressing for that change, it will destroy tho Government’s national character.”