PACIFIC TRADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19659, 17 June 1938, Page 7

PACIFIC TRADE

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COMMERCE OP EMPIRE

NEW SHIPPING SERVICI

DISCUSSION IN COMMONS

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(Reed. June Hi, 3 p.m.") LONDON, June 15

The negotiations regarding the Pacific air service were progressing exceedingly favourably, said Earl de la Warr in the House of Lords today.

He added that the service would be from San Francisco or Vancouver to New Zealand. Passengers would then change to a special service operating between New Zealand and Australia.

"We have reached the point of settling terms with two of the Dominions." he said. "The question of stopping places has not yet been settled."

Numerous references to the Dominion's connection with the United States trade agreement and Pacific shipping were made in the House of Commons during the trade debate today. Sir Percy Harris (Liberal, Bethnal Green), referring to Pacific shipping, said that there was a real clanger of the trade between America and New Zealand and Australia going entirely from British hands. He suggested that the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Stanley, in the negotiations with America, should urge that the trade agreement should include some provision for dealing with the problem. Sir Percy, dealing with the possibility of an Anglo-American agreement, declared that the agreement between America and Canada provided the answer to the criticism that agreement with America was difficult without sacrificing the interests of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. He proceeded to stress that New Zealand and Australia were finding it difficult to obtain a sufficient market in the British Isles for their great production of wool, meat and butter.

Sir Percy Harris suggested that the British representatives at present in the United States should not be hampered by the feeling that they might injure the interests of the Dominions. Mr. Oliver Stanley at the closing of the debate in the House of Commons, admitted that the negotiations with America were long and slow, but said that the subjects under discussion had been difficult and intricate. It was essential that the agreement be fair to both sides.

Dealing with the question of economic appeasement, he declared that the tariff system had come to stav.