IMPERIAL TRADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 7

IMPERIAL TRADE

NEED FOE EXPANSION ! REMEDY FOR PROBLEMS (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association./ LONDON, June 21. The Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary oi' the Dominions, speaking at the Empire Federation of the Chambers of Commerce luncheon, reiterated that the only effective remedy for economic difricultids lay in the \ development of iiiter-Inipeiial trade, which, was capable of infinitely greater expansion than foreign. The Empire wine trade had aimost died during war-time, but had now recovered its pre-war dimensions, and substantial expansion was likely, particularly in the heavy wines. Empire business communities must get together. Why, he asked, should we not have a federation of fruit, tobacco, dairy producers, and grain growers, in short, an Imperial Farmers' Union, to reassert for agriculture its proper plaee, thereby applying the only true remedy for the persistent manufacturing crisis. NEW ZEALANDER'S LESSON LONDON, June 21. Showing a dish containing one dried apricot, and another containing 99, Mrs E. T. Hornibrook, a New Zealunder, the organiser of a new health soeiety, lecturing before the Empiro Foods' Committee, said the proportions represented the sale in Britain of Empire and foreign dried fruits, respectively. She urged the committeo to do its utmost to assist colonial produce. Sir Arbuthnot Lane, and other well-known people, supported her.