PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 222, 16 September 1909, Page 5

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

• [press association.] SYDNEY, Sept. 15. The Congress decided to take the question of preferential trade'as the first business, limiting the speeches, after the mover and seconder, to fifteen minutes, with the object of closing the debate by to-morrow night

An animated discussion is proceeding upon a series of resolutions submitted by the London Chambers of Commerce, reaffirming the resolutions of the previous congress in favor of preferential treatment on a reciprocal basis within the Empire, and urging the Governments of the Empire to treat this matter as of" present practical importance; and that organisations represented at the congress pledge themselves to press their respective Governments to take action at the. next Imperial Conference to give effect to this principle.!