OTTAWA AGREEMENT

Northern Advocate, 8 November 1932, Page 5

OTTAWA AGREEMENT

CA NA DIAX ATTITUDE. LIBERAL* KEEP ALOOF. (Received 12..80 p.nt.) OTTAWA, November 7. '‘The Libera! Party will not. consider itself bound by any policy initiated by the present Government in connection with the Imperial Conference agreements,** Mr Mackenzie King declared in (he Canadian House of Commons today following a declaration by the Conservative Prime Minister, Mr R. B. Pen net I, that, while Parliament was mil indy free and imtramellcd ho considered it was. in honour bound up in the observation of this agreement.

“NEW ZEALAND FIRST,” CHIEF M'ANFFACTURER , H IDEA. {Special to "Northern Advocate.") , WELLINGTON, Tills Day. ■ ■ Manufacturers are in some trepidalion ns to I In* possible results of the final clause of the Ottawa agreement,” said Mr S. T:il:le, president of the A nek Innd Manufacturers •' Association, speaking- nt the Stratford Railway bnu<|in>l Insl nl.elil. Tie said Mint manufacturers realised that New Zealand’s interests must come first and that there must be a truly national outlook. 'The undertaking given in the agreement, Mr Takle added, must he carried out. 'The Government had undertaken, as soon as possible, to appoint a tribunal to carry out an investigation of I he-secondary industries. He felt sun l that as a result of this in((iiiry manufacturing industries would be proved to be of erpial value to the Dominion as were primary Industries.