PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10960, 1 May 1907, Page 3

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

DISCUSSION AT IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. (Press Assn. — By Telegraph. — Copyright.) ' (Received May 1, 10.58 a.m.) I LONDON, April 30. j Asquith, Mr Lloyd George, and a dozen Treasury, Board of Trade, and India Office officials were present at the' preferential trade discussion. | Lord Elgin invit&t Mr Deakin to open the. discussion. Me Deakin thought Sir Wilfrid Laurier might like to say a few ■ preliminary words. I Sir Wilfrid Laurier made a short state- 1 ment, explaining that Canada had actu- ! ally given preference to the Motherland, and now awaited some action on the part of the Motherland. He^ intimated, his intention to move a reaffirmation of tlie preference resolutions carried at the conference of 1902, though he understood Australia proposed similar action. Mr Deakin. remarked that Australia's resolutions referred to an explicit request for preference from the Motherland. Mr Deakin was sneaking when the conference adjourned to attend a luncheon given by the colonial-bom members of the House of Common* _^