TRADE WITH CANADA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 20 September 1929, Page 13

TRADE WITH CANADA.

EFFORT FOR BRITAIN.

MR. THOMAS* SUCCESS.

Australian Piesa Association—United Service LONDON. Sept. 18.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal and Minister in Charge of Unemployment, arrived at Liverpool to-day from Canada. In the course of an interview the Minister said he was completely satisfied with the results of his visit to that Dominion. He was hopeful that his negotiations would help to solve Britain's unemployment problem by Canada taking British coal, steel and other commodities which at present sho is taking from other countries.

A British official wireless message says Mr. Thomas went on to state that ho must lay his proposals and the results of his tour before the Cabinet and before Parliament. He had not asked Canada to talco anything from Britain which sho produces herself, but he felt he was entitled to make a strong claim for trade, having regard to the Homo Country being Canada's largest single purchaser of wheat, apart from the tics of Empire. When he made a comparison of the amount of goods Canada purchased from Britain and that sho obtains from the United State 3 ho found Canada very ready to listen to the claim he had urged. Canada knew Britain was her best customer now, and he urged her to reciprocate in the direction ho had indicated.

The Minister said ho proposed to meet all tho interested business people in Britain so that the necessary steps might be taken to give practical effect to his efforts. All this was only consistent with his statement when he took office that there was po remedy for unemployment by artificial means, but that the real solution was to secure customers. That he had set out to do. Mr. Thoma3 said he knew it was an unusual step for a British Cabinet Minister to play tho rolo of a commercial traveller, but tho cause had necessitated it and tho results had justified it. He admitted that he had taken to Canada samples of British coal of which tests were made. Orders would be placed for British coal as a result.