TRADE RESTRICTIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 289, 3 November 1934, Page 8

TRADE RESTRICTIONS.

DR. CONDLIFFE’S INVESTIGATIONS.

AUCKLAND, Nov. 2. After an absence from New Zealand of seven years, Dr. J. B. Condlitfe, formerly Professor of Economics at Canterbury College, and now a member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations at Geneva, returned to Auckland by the Mariposa on a holiday visit to-day. Dr. Condliffe was for some time on the staff of the Institute of Pacific Relations, but was appointed to the Secretariat of the League three years ago. Describing his work, Dr. Condliffe said he was attached to the Economic Intelligence Service, which was a part of the financial section of the Secretariat. One of his major tasks was to produce every year a world economic survey volume which was a regular study of economic conditions and developments throughout the world. The 1934 volume was issued just before his departure from Geneva. Dr. Condliffe did not feel free to comment on the quota position in England. The effect of the trade restrictions, he said, varied with a particular commodity and particular country. For instance, the bacon marketing scheme in England had had the curious result that for a time the Danes received more money for less bacon. Some people attempted to submit this as an argument in favour of quotas, but the position was reallv highly complex in respect to different commodities.