RECIPROCAL TRADE

Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 26

RECIPROCAL TRADE

! WASHINGTON, April 5. Mr Taft, in his message to Congress, urges the ratification of the reciprocity agreement wiith Canada. -April 7. A Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives is considering the reciprocity agreement. NEW YORK, April 6. The farmers in the North-western States are organising to secure a hearing on the Reciprocity Bill. The Democratic Senators, at a caucus, decided to support the bill. OTTAWA, April 7. The Conservative caucus endorsed Mr Borden's leadership, and decided to press opposition to the Beciprocity Agreement to the utmost limit. LONDON, April 8. Lord Selborne, speaking- at an Imperial preference meeting, when referring to reciprocity declared that according to the most favoured nation system there were 12 countries entitled to receive from Canada the same treatment that she has conceded to America. The latter would doubtless be surprised if she had to share the concessions with .12 others. Canada might ask Britain to denounce the treaties. He believed that a remedy for the difficulty lay in the method suggested by Mr Deakin in 1907—namely, a joint system of Imperial negotiation as to foreign treaties. MELBOURNE, April 6. A meeting of the Council of the Chambers of Comimerce decided to include

tradie reciprocity between the Commonwealth, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa amongst the questions to be discussed ,a:t the annual meeting of the Associated Chambers.