OVERSEAS TRADE
AUSTRALLA AND BRITAIN. (Rec. 5.5 pan.) London, Mar. 17. The conference promoted by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce and attended by 250 representatives of British and Australian firms, unanimously urged the Australian Association of British Manufacturers in Melbourne to co-operate with its branches throughout the Commonwealth in the expansion of Anglo-Austra-lian trade towards which the conference pledged adequate financial support. Sir Arthur Balfour said the British proportion of Australian trade had fallen from 52 per cent, in 1923 to 45 last year. Considerable changes were taking place in Australia, necessitating representatives of British manufacturers being on the spot to safeguard their interests. He suggested that the Australian Association should erect a building in Sydney. One speaker said a five months’ tour of Australia had convinced him of the need of a British Manufacturers’ Association there.
Mr W. W. Anderson, of Sydney, expressed the opinion that a considerable part of the £30,000,000 worth of Australian trade now going to foreign nations could be captured by Britain. —A. <fc N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19822, 19 March 1926, Page 7
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