JOHN BULL AND CO.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4700, 29 November 1913, Page 7

JOHN BULL AND CO.

A COUNCIL OF COMMERCE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. London. Last Night. The British Imperial Council of Commerce lias elected Lord Desborough president, Air Stanley Alachin chairman, Sir Algernon Girth vicechairman, and Air J. G. Jenkins (an ex-President and ex-Agent-General of Australia) treasurer. Lord Desborough presided at the inaugural banquet. Air Cave, ALP., urged amalgamation of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council with the House of Lords Appeal Court, and dissented from the idea of a peripatetic Judicial Committee. Air Sydney Buxton (President of the Board of Trade) welcomed the Council as an Imperial Clearinghouse for the interchange of views. He testified to the great assistance tin l Trade Commissioners had given the Government by bringing information whereby the manufacturers were enabled sometimes to meet foreign competitors. Tlie Hon. T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, hoped to see a British Council for the Empire founded on trade. He emphasised the Dominion’s stand behind the Afotherland in anything requiring assistance in regard to defence or trade. New Zealand’s preferential tariff would still keep the greatest part for New Zealand's trade with Britain. So long as Australia was unpopulated it would be a weakness in the Empire's armour. They must come to tln> Afotherland for the surplus population and money to carry out the development of works. COTTON-GROWING IN AUSTRALIA. London, Last Night. The Colonial Office announces an agreement in principle between the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments and the Dominions' Royal Commission and the British Cottongrowing Association regarding cottongrowing in Australia. Fifteen hundred pounds has been promised, including £IOO per annum for three years, by the association,' to secure skilled advice and make practical experiments with various seeds, the association guaranteeing for three years from July, 1914, a minimum net price of 6$ per lh at Liverpool for cotton specified in the description.