IMPORTANT ADVANCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 230, 29 August 1932, Page 7

IMPORTANT ADVANCE

SUCCESS OF CONFERENCE.

GREATER THAN EXPECTED.

SOLVING EMPIRE’S PROBLEMS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 29, 11.35 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 27. Departmental officials are already closely engaged in perfecting the machinery necessary for implementing the Government’s policy of which the Ottawa decisions now form a part.

The delegates to the Conference, in a general survey, assert that tho Conference represents an important advance and registers a degree of success far beyond anything expected before they left England.

It is recognised that a general return of confidence among traders and purchasers still remains an essential need of the present situation.

In their view, however, the success of tiro Conference has an important bearing on tho broader questions' and, in particular, on the prospects of approaching tho World Economic Conference.

Tho ability of tho British Commonwealth to influence that conference would have been weakened, if not destroyed, by failure of progress towards a solution of tho Commonwealth’s own problems.

HOPES MORE THAN FULFILLED.

LONDON, Aug. 28. “Ottawa more than fulfilled our hopes,” declared Mr Baldwin in a broadcast speech. “The agreements will help the Dominions materially and react favourably on British trade.”