IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Otago Witness, Issue 3610, 22 May 1923, Page 19

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

SIR PHILIP LLOYD-GRAEME’3 SUGGESTION. LONDON, May 13. The Daily Telegraph’s Parliamentary correspondent says it is the intention of Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme (President of the Board of Trade) to invite representatives of business organisations like the Federation of British Industries, the Associated Chambers of Commerce, and the Central Chamber of Shipping, to confer with him regarding Empire development before the Imperial Economic Conference meets. Among the matters likely to be considered are emigration, the possibility of extending Empire preference, the improvement of commercial intelligence, and the question of shipping services. Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme attaches importance to tlie possibility of arrangements between the Home Government and the dominions for the issuing of joint credits to facilitate development schemes if projects, which otherwise would take four r five years to mature, can thus be accelerated. It is felt that the whole Empire will benefit, and that British manufacturers will have an opportunity of securing contracts for materials at a time when trade needs stimulating.