Late News

Northern Advocate, 13 July 1936, Page 3

Late News

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN IDEALS LONDON, July 12.

In connection with the Joseph Chamberlain Centenary, a great campaign will start in the autumn to carry out his ideals.

Sir Henry Page Croft, prominent Conservative M.P., and chairman of a committee organising the campaign, jsays a strong panel of speakers will address meetings in the big cities, dealing with outstanding Imperial questions, including trade, shipping and migration, with a view to impressing the country with the imperativeness of Imperial co-operation before the Imperial Conference in 1937. A CHANCE FOR NEW ZEALAND, {Special to “Northern Advocate.”] AUCKLAND, This Day. The fact that Australia has raised a tariff wall against Japan is regarded by Mr T. Ogata, who arrived by the Wanganella today, as an excellent opportunity for New Zealand to increase its exports of wool, casein and tallow to Japan. He also added, In an inter- | view, that Japan would, in return, look for an "increased share of the New Zealand market. WORLDWIDE TRADE UNION AIM. In order to establish a united worldwide trade union movement, the international Federated Trades Union will negotiate with national centres in America, Australia and New Zealand, the Far East, the Soviet and other nonaflxliated centres. Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary, asked the British Trades Union Congress, which passed the resolution, to avoid acts tending to compromise necessary discussions. MINOR BOOM IN BUTTER. j With the Marketing Bill coming into ! effect on August 1, Auckland agents ' of Tooley Street produce merchants are active, buying up butter and , cheese on a large scale at high prices, j Reports from Taranaki and elsewhere indicate that the same ac- I tivity is going on all over the Do- j minion, reaching the proportions | of a minor boom. •! The main object of the firms is to I secure as much produce as possible be- I fore the introduction of State control ' of marketing, and to profit by the rise in prices on the London market.