RECIPROCAL TRADE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11773, 28 October 1912, Page 2

RECIPROCAL TRADE.

OVERSEA DOMINIONS' CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph.) (Parliamentary Correspondent.) Wellington. October 25. While the Imperial Trade Commission is in Australia a conference of representatives from the oversea dominions will be held. Mr Fisher, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, has already signified his approval of the conference which has been proposed by the New Zealand Government, but no reply has vet been received from the Union of. South Africa to the New Zealand Government's request. The Hon. F. M -8.Fisher has, however, received a letter from the Hon. Mr' Foster, ' CanadianMinister of Trade and Commerce, in; which he says: "I have received your, letter of 21st August calling attention? to a paragraph in the New .Zealand Bud-i c*et in reference to a;meeting..of- the; Ministers of Trade of the four Dominions. The Government of which 1 am-5 x member will very cordially join in the; proposition that you have outlined, i Kindly keep me informed as to the pro-j aress of the negotiations. -. I shall be; very glad to hear of their being brought; to a successful conclusion." .. , i The conference is to beheld in Me -. bourne probably about thoend of March.; next or early in April. '