EMPIRE TRADE
COLONLAL SECRETARY’S COMPARISONS. THE DOMINIONS’ SHARE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 10. Speaking at a luncheon given by the Imperial Council of Commerce, Mr L. C. Amery (Colonial Secretary') emphasised the necessity of clear and comprehensive thinking. He gave figures showing that the excess of manufactured goods and coal exported from Britain, compared with similar imports, amounted to £32,000,000 in the ease of European countries, and £98,000,000 in countries outside Europe, as against £165,000,000 in the Empire, of which £77,000,000 applied to the dominions. Referring to the magnitude of the dominions’ trade compared with their populations, Mr Amery showed that Australia and New Zealand bought over £80,000,000 worth of British goods last year. One Australian or New Zealander was worth to British trade 600 times as much as a Russian, 100 times as much as a Chinaman, and 20 times as much as an American.
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Southland Times, Issue 19575, 12 June 1925, Page 5
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152EMPIRE TRADE Southland Times, Issue 19575, 12 June 1925, Page 5
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