INTER-EMPIRE TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18388, 2 May 1923, Page 9

INTER-EMPIRE TRADE.

OUTLOOK FOR DOMINIONS.

ENCOURAGING; ATMOSPHERE A. and N.Z. ' , SYDNEY, May 1. One of the , delegates representing Australian fruit and produce, interests,; who visited London on behalf of the Federal Government to inquire into questions of reciprocal; treatment and trade generally, has returned to Sydney. The- impression he - gained was that, while: :■ business men in London and ; the provinces . are opposed to any mention of preference duties, they freely recognise now that the Imperial Economic Conference must evolve some machinery that will -assure the Dominions closer preferential trading : conditions. He added that the atmosphere was never better for the development of closer trade relations between Australia and the Homeland.'' \r •>' : ;.!' V"':;■:-, ■ * . \ As a result of his- inquiries, he urged the need' for careful attention to grading and packing goods, and for the standardisation of qualities of butter and honey in order to compete with goods from other supplying countries. ,;