MR BRUCE IN OTTAWA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7

MR BRUCE IN OTTAWA.

CONFERENCE WITH GOVERNMENT. OTTAWA, Jan. 2. % Mr Bruce has arrived. He was met by Mr Mackenzie King, the Premier, and a representative of the GovernorGeneral, and taken to Government House for a private dinner. Mr Bruce will speak to-morrow at a Government dinner and a Canadian Club luncheon. He will confer with the Government regarding the possible early appointment of an Australian Trade Commissioner to Canada.—A. ar.d N.Z. cable.

BESIEGED BY PRESSMEN. COMPLEXITY OF QUESTIONS. Received January 4, 11.55 a.m. OTTAWA, Jan. 3. Mr Bruce’s programme to-day began with a visit to the Government experimental farm, where the Minister of Agriculture explained the work being done to aid Canadian farmers. Mr Bruce then proceeded to the Canadian Club luncheon, where he made an address and saw pressmen. After the Government dinned lie will proceed to Ronto. Pressmen subjected Air Bruce to the usual complexity of questions, covering a wide range of subjects chiefly, however, with regard to the Imperial Conference and the trade relations of the two Dominions. Other queries turned upon his attitude towards further distributing Dominion primary products on the British market. Mr Bruce pointed out that the natural increase in the consumption of Dominion goods by Britain was now tending to remove the necessity of seeking artificial means to stir up such consumption.

Mr ‘Bruce was asked his Government’s attitude in the contemplated co-operation of Australian and Canadian wheat growers in the world pool. He intimated that this co-operation was not a ! Government matter, and if Australian and Canadian growers found it to their advantage to join such a pool, it really concerned them alone.—A. and N.Z. cable.