CHAMBERS OF- COMMERCE.
Among tho great forces which are making for tfie closer union of the British Empire, the commercial factor must ibe. regarded as one of the most potent. The commercial congress now. gathering together wimake preferential trade within' the Empire the principal topic, and some of the delegates 'are •'confident in the belief, that' a beneficial' scheme -wii: •be devised at. the meeting. If. the -effect 'is only- to draw Australia into line with Canada and New Zealand a great step forward will have been attained. "Commerce" is ''infinite]/ more than the exchange of so many pounds of wool for so many yard* 'of cloth, of so many Hundredweight 'of butter for so many shillings' worth of ironmongery. It is the slowly acquired process by which the industrial life of one man is brought into co-ordination -with! the . industrial life 0/ another, and the industrial organisation of ' a nation or of civilisation made contributory in tho highest degree to the individual welfare of the industrial citizen, as well as to the strength of the national ; life.— Auckland "Herald."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 3
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180CHAMBERS OF-COMMERCE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 3
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