EMPIRE TRADE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 229, 25 August 1928, Page 9

EMPIRE TRADE

EFFECT OF DEVELOPMENT. SETTLING WHITE POPULATION. THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received August 25, 10.55 a.m. QUEBEC, Aug. 24. “Members of tlie Imperial Parliament wish to make it absolutely clear that the Homeland is not asking the Dominions to take her unemployed or those not able to be employed,” stated Viscount Peel, chairman of the delegation to the Empire Parliamentary Association, to-day. “The Homeland desires to give the best in the interests of the Empire not only to strengthen ourselves, but also to strengthen the Empire.

“The more we can develop Empiro trade the more rapidly we can carry through the re-distribution of the white population, which is absolutely vital not only to Great Britain, hut also in an equal degree, we believe, to the other communities of the commonwealth, as there is the unemployment problem in several Dominions besides the Homeland.”

At the luncheon to be given to-mor-row Viscount Peel will reply to speeches of welcome on behalf of all the delegates. At a dinner to-morrow, Mr Glasgow, the head of the Australian delegation, will speak. Fiftyfour delegates are atending tlie conference—2o from Great Britain, four each from New Zealand, India, the Irish Free State and Australia; eight from South Africa, nine from Newfoundland and Malta and one from Southern Rhodesia.