EMPIRE CONSOLIDATION

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 127, 1 June 1920, Page 8

EMPIRE CONSOLIDATION

CLOSER TRADE CONFERENCE.

[PbEHS ABBOOIATION.]

glustralian and N.Z. Cable Association

(Received June 1, 1.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, May 31. Welcoming the West Indian delegates' to the conference for closer trade relations with Canada, the JOuke of Devonshire pointed out that iihereal question at issue was that of making the future of the Empire secure. "If the Empire were^ selfsupporting its security would be unquestionable. . ~ Sir L. S. Amery, representing, the Colonial Office, emphasised the Imperial aspect of ithe .conference, and. laid he hoped that % outcome .would -b 6 a widening of existmg.trade pie-fei-ence between tho Dominions and the West Indies. \ ~ - h Tlie Hon. B. St.. John Branch, Attorney-General for' Jamal«a^s^ that the colony was prepared to enter Shole-heartedly. into w."^' the consolidation <rf .he tonj Representatives from all the rest ot -the Indies were present.