EMPIRE AFFAIRS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 5

EMPIRE AFFAIRS

PREFERENCE TO DOMINIONS' H OABL]B- >aEBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON. May 1. Mr W. Wedgewood Benn (Labour) ' asked in the House of Commons whether the Government would concede at the Imperial Conference preferential treatment to the Dominions in the matter of important foodstuffs. j Mr Stanley Baldwin (Chancellor of the Exchequer) replying, said it was inadvisable to anticipate the discussion on this subject. jMr Wedgewood Benn: Does that mean that this House will not be allowed to form or shape the policy to be presented to- the conference by our representatives ? Mr Baldwin: I think we must wait and see what would be proper for us to consider. Mr Wedgewood Benn: Does that mean that the House would be only presented with the decisions reached, without being asked what its views are ? Mr Baldwin: It is difficult to discuss in the House of Commons a subject which one does not know will be raised or not.—Aus.-N..Z. Cable Assn.