HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1923, Page 3

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■* AUSTRALIAN AM) N.Z. CAR).I; ASSOCIATION. St EX F. IX COM MUXS. LA BO BITES SlXfi “BED F1.A0." (Keceived this day at lib IT R.m.) Lt’iXDOX, April It When Mr Baldwin moved that the House go into Commiltee of Supply, in order to overcome last night ~ ddlicnlly. .Mr Lanshnry demnnded that hetoic agreeing to Ihe icotion. the l ions' should get a satisfactory n— ni tiilce regarding ex-seivie men. .Mr Baldwin moved the closure, amidst a Iromenchitis uproar from the laihinr heiiehos. which .Mr MacDonald was unable* lo quell. The .Speaker declined the motion carried, ami l.ahunrites singing the “Bed Flag” refused to allow the business to proceed, so the sitting was suspended for an hour. QUESTI OX OF EM BIKE TRADE. (Received this day at 10.-Id a.in.) LOXDOX, April 11. Viscount Ediiam said the Empire could make itself entirely self-sufficient in foodstuffs and raw materials, with a surplus for oxpoit, and iL would he criminal if they did not ensure the _ Empire’s future after the lessons of C. the war. Sir Lloyd (interne replying, expressed approval of the nioti'ui. which otuI,odied the very object ol rhe lorlbeomiiig economic < rnferetiec. Ihe tielicit ill the export trade hud been reduced from thirty-live per cent at the beginning of 1922 to twenty per cent. If we were to cute unemployment we must not only wine out the deficit, hot something more, and that could nowhere he so well done as within Ike 'Empire. In the present economic condition, America was finding it difficult to export trade. This was a vital moment in which our merchants should find a way into markets "here American competition had Lee it the keone-t. Willi a closer study of the condition.-. < f the Dominion markets we r add

greatly ini reuse the amount of trade with them. Government wouH take up at. the Imperial Conference the whole question of co-operation with the Dominions and State (.overumenis. It would also consider the possibility of extending preference. Mr .Short (l.nbouri wondered to what extent the pockets of the -taxpayers would bear the cost ol the schemes foreshadowed hv Sir Lloyd Graeme. The Labour Party generally supported the motion because it v.as interested in the progress of the development *>f the Empire, us much as any other section (if the House. Mr Short urged Government to le-apt-n complete) diplomatic relations with Russia. The cutting oil' cf 1110 millions of people could not he to F-t* mutual advantage ol either country. .Mr Wed gewood did not believe the ■ unemployed problem would he solved by the migration ol the people to various parts of the Empire. The solution lay at Home, in getting the people hack to the land. Doctor Chappie, from the Liberal benches, made a spirited pica for emigration, vigorously dismissing the Labour J’arty's objections to this policy. .Mr Ormshy Gore replying to the debate 'repudiated tliei idea that the Kmpiro Settlement Act was put forward as a solution for unemployment. It was a partnership arrangement, designed to ensure that the people went to the Dominions tinder the tnest humane, and favourable conditions. 'I lie imperial Economic Conlerence was being summoned primarily to discuss how far migration could he improved and various forms of assistance wore t> he given to trade with the Dominions. The motion was rejected without division.