CHECKING DOMINION ENTERPRISE.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 38, 9 May 1924, Page 2

CHECKING DOMINION ENTERPRISE.

LONDON, May 6. The Empire Producers’ Organisation passed a resolution that it views with apprehension the Government’s failure, to ratify the Economic Conference resolutions, and regards with, dismay the Government’s proposals to reduce the duties on certain products at present receiving preferences, and with stabilising preferences at pre-Budget money value, thereby checking enterprise in Empire development. It points out that the Government’s action will force the Dominions in search of markets to enter into long-term commercial treaties with foreign countries regardless of Britain’s interests, which action the Dominions have long striven to avoid in an endeavour to institute a common Empire economic policy. The resolution emphasises that the Government’s action will make it a difficult task in finding settlement opportunities for Britain’s surplus population.