OVERSEAS TRADE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 10

OVERSEAS TRADE.

EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD. MATTER FOR IMPERIAL -CONFERENCE. (Fsou Our Own Correspondent.) , .. LONDON, March 21. Li *he House of Commons last night Captain Reid (Warrington, U.) urged that the time had come when they shouict consider broadening the scope of the Empire Marketing Board. At present no attempt was made to place English goods m the Empire markets. Many o our manufacturers refused to give any encouragement to the broadening of the scope of the Empire Marketing Board. In comparison with other countries we were very slow to :adapt ourselves to vS a *., e 0 t ltl( ! nß ' There were markets within the Empire waiting for many of E-IFsL ° Ught to ad '-ertise English goods within the Empire and instigate extensive research which would enable our industries to know where p 1 r !^;™ Uld Tlt Ce ? heir good* within the. reared and daSS ° f S °° ds that were Jf, .(S° c -, Clay Cross) suggested that British motor ears were not markets “ 7 mi ® ht be in ove ™ Mr Ormsby-Gore (Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office) (Stafford), said that i lar , ket,ng Board was reS" „„ by the . terms agreed upon by the self-governing dominions to the marketing of agricultural produce and raw forest products. It was not merely for encouraging the better marketing cf £5 aea ag? cu ltural produce, but equally e a marketin g of oversea cultural produce, but equally f or the better marketing of home-grown agricultural produce. The extension^ w!lT t,on of t he Empire Marketing Board to cover all manufactured articles £ ™ Vei i, “°t “erdy marketing in this country but throughout the Empire would of course change the whole character of the board and could not be done by the existing board. It was essentially a matter for the next Imperial Conference. No doubt the question of the further development of British trade in the dominions would then be the mam question. He was satisfied that the experience of the last three years would be extremely helpful in guiding and stimulating the interchange of products of all kinds between the di'fferent parts of the Kin pi re. * The Bill was read a second time.