SUCCESS ACHIEVED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 229, 27 August 1932, Page 7

SUCCESS ACHIEVED

EVENTS OF THE YEAR. MOVE FROM DEPRESSION. INSPIRATION FOR FUTURE, (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right.) Received August 27, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 26. Tho British delegation from the Ottawa Conference issued the following statement upon arrival at Cherbourg: “Tho events of tho year—Lausanne, the war loan conversion and now Ottawa —have shown that we have moved away from the area of deep depression which lias long been clouding the horizon.

With this widespread inspiration we proceed with full confidence to tho World Economic Conference which will form a fitting conclusion to a year of solid and substantial advance to better times.

“Tho agreements with tho Dominions at Ottawa were marked by degrees of success far beyond anything which we expected. We are confident that they will lead to increased Empire trade, exercising an influence far beyond the Empire’s confines. Tho greater scope given to Australian and New Zealand products in tho British markets will rescue tho pastoralists, who were almost on the verge of ruin. Owing to tho calamitous fall in wheat prices, steps are 1 icing taken to devise the orderly marketing of supplies.”

BRITISH DELEGATES.

HAPPY AND UNITED TEAM,

Received August 27, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 26. An authority who has been in closest touch with the developments at Ottawa, when interviewed on the liner at Cherbourg, expressed the opinion that the Conference had created a strong foundation on which tho Empire Governments could build an even stronger policy of economic co-operation. It was noteworthy for tho common principles that approved of the classification and interpretations of the tariffs, and the agreement not to return to tho gold standard until certain conditions were fulfilled, was also a remarkable achievement. The very fact that somo were openly expressing disappointment with the results was the best proof that the Conference had been a success.

The Empress of Britain docked at Southampton at midday amid a deafening chorus of welcome from the sirens of a hundred steamers while flags were dipped in salute and aeroplanes and flying boats swooped overhead. The Mayor and corporation gave tho delegates from tho Ottawa Conference a civic welcome.

Before they disembarked Mr Baldwin said: “We were a very happy and united team. We did not care who made the runs provided the runs were made, and wo hope and believe wo have done useful work.” Mr J. H. Thomas said the Conference was a success from every point of view, and added: “Under the guise of card parties, I have been talking with the Irish every day. I had hoped my proposals would result in a settlement there, but I am quite sure they cleared the ground and the discussions have done good. I certainly did not shut the door to any avenue of peace.” WELCOME IN IX)NOON. KING REPRESENTED. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 27, 11.5 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 26. The Prime Minister, having flown from Lossiemouth, arrived at Waterloo Station just as the boat train from Southampton, with four members of the British delegation to Ottawa, drew alongside. Sir John Simon, who in another aeroplane had also flown to London from Lossiemouth, joined Mr MacDonald’s party which included several members of the Cabinet. The King was represented by Lord Hampden. During the afternoon the Prime Minister met in turn each of the delegates, and to-morrow a meeting of Cabinet will be held for more formal consideration of the work of what is likely to prove an historic conference.

FOSTERING WORLD TRADE. DIMINISHING TARIFF BARRIERS. Received August 27. 8.40 a.m. VANCOUVER, Aug. 26. “We are well entitled to look with real satisfaction upon the results of the Conference, and I return to New Zealand with the sincere conviction that th(s hopes and beliefs in the Conference were well placed,” declared Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates to-day. “I am glad, too, that for the most part the Empire countries in their efforts to foster trade among themselves proceeded along the road of diminishing the tariff barriers within the Empire rather than along the facile way of increasing the tariffs against outside countries. This is one of the aspects of the Conference illustrating the general desire to foster world trade, and, so far as it lay in our power, to assist a general recovery.” Mr Coates particularly stressed the achievement of reconciling so many varied and often conflicting opinions and interests' of various parts of the Empire. He expressed thanks on behalf of the New Zealand delegation for the Canadian hospitality. Mr J. Knox, past president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, said he was pleased with the results achieved at Ottawa. Ho visited the Vancouver Board of Trade, suggesting that Canada, and particularly British Columbia, be represented at the 1933 meeting of the Chambers of Commerce in New Zealand.

CRITICISM OF PROCEEDINGS. Received August 27, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 26. “I have never seen such a scramble of interests,” declared Mr John Bromley, chairman of the Trades Union Congress, who has returned from Ottawa. He said the Conference exhibited more desire for what it could get therefrom than the glory of the Empire, the revival of world trade or any other consideration.