EMPIRE AFFAIRS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 119, 4 May 1934, Page 5

EMPIRE AFFAIRS

TRADE AND DEFENCE Pending Debate in Commons J SUBJECTS TO BE RAISED (By lelegraph-Press Assn.—Copyrislit.) (Received 4. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 3. ifi the House of Commons the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald told Dr. A. B. Howitt that no suggestion had been brought to his notice as having been made to the Rt. Hon. S. M. Bruce that an Imperial Conference be held in London in 1935 to discuss defence and economic policy in the light .of . Ottawa. Dr. E. Leslie Burgin, Under-Secre-tary for Trade, replying to questions by Mr. Herbert Williams and Sir Gifford Fox, said that the average c.i.f. value of New Zealand butter landed in March was 70/8 per hundredweight compared with Russian, including duty, 59/11, and Danish 73/7. The minimum home price in Denmark was 97/6. He was not aware of the wholesale price in New Zealand. Ho understood it based on the London quotation. Among the matters to be raised m the debate on the Dominions Offiffiee vote in the House of Commons oa Monday will be the Ottawa agreement, the wording of which will be the subject of review. The recent New Zea land suggestion put forward with a view to stimulating trade with Britain will also be discussed. “The Tirneg” says there will be an exchange of views between Minister, and Mr. Bruce as soon as he returns from Australia, particularly as he will be seeing Mr. Forbes in New Zealand and Mr. Bennett in Canada during the journey to England.