AUSTRALASIAN TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 June 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALASIAN TRADE.

EUROPEAN DESIRE TO RELAX

RESTRICTION

BY CABLB—PEESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

LONDON, June 21. Sir George Reid, presiding at the Australasian dinner at the Trocadero, in proposing the toast of BritishAustralasian trade, strongly pleaded for an extension of inter-Imperial trade, and pointed out that there was a growing desire in European countries to relax restrictions interfering with the expansion of Australian and New Zealand trade with the world.