EMPIRE TRADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 8

EMPIRE TRADE

ALLEGED ABSENCE OF PLAN. PROTECTION OF FREETRADE. (United Preaa Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, January 4. (Received Jan. 6, at 5.5 p.m.) Under the caption of “ Give Empire trade a chance," the Vancouver Sun says: “English statesmen have strutted and talked all over the world about the great thing the British Empire is, but never a word or a gesture about any definite Empire plan. The British dominions think they, have something really worth while ~jn the thing called 1 Empire.’ Let England put a practical man like Lord Beaverbrook to work, and let him surround himself with practical business, political, and financial mechanics, like Lord Melchett, Mr Amery, and Mr M'Kenna, putting th<* Empire on the operating table to diagnoso it and find just what it is, what it can do, and how the component parts can be made .to function with each other.. If it is to be an Empire of Protection let ns determine which of the dominions will do the protesting, and what proportion each dominion will pay for that protection. If a Freetrade Empire, let us find with -whom we can trade, just what goods we can trade, and on what basis goods can be traded.”