ECONOMIC RELATIONS
BRITAIN AND CANADA. MR THOMAS’S MISSION. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, August 9. Mr J. H. Thomas (Minister in Charge of Unemployment Problems) left London to-day for Canada. Mr Thomas’s main objects are to improve trade relations between the Horae Country and Canada, and to investigate the question of immigration. He hopes to secure more markets for British goods in order to alleviate unemployment in this country. From Quebec he will go to Ottawa, where a conference has been arranged with tile Canadian Prime Minister and other Ministers.
Mr Thomas said in an interview: “I am leaving with the good wishes, I know, of all my fellow-countryilien in a mission which I hope will benefit us all. There is no aspect of our economic relations that I will not he prepared to discuss,”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20793, 12 August 1929, Page 10
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