EMPIRE AFFAIRS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 August 1923, Page 5

EMPIRE AFFAIRS.

THE PREFERENCE QUESTION

8T CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—GOPJjaiGOT

LONDON, Aug. .3. A meeting of representatives of the principal producing associations in the •British Empire, to consider the representations to bo made to the Empire Economio Conference, unanimously passed a resolution in favour of substantial inter-Empire preferences, an Imperial agricultural policy, an accurate survey of actual potential Empire production of cereals, meat and dairy products, and adjustments of preferential duties with the object of increasing Empire production; also that preferences should be accorded in the form of a definite money value preference, and that the Government be asked to, give an assurance ihat preference would not be reduced for ten years, except by the mutual consent of all concerned.

Th<j meeting also passed a resolution in favour of asking the conference to recommend to the Governments represented that all contracts issued by the Governmental departments and publio bodies of the Empire should be given to British Emoire firms using only Bmtish Empire labour and materials.