BRITISH CABINET

Southland Times, Issue 21577, 15 December 1931, Page 7

BRITISH CABINET

MANY PROBLEMS FOR SOLUTION.

REPARATIONS AND TRADE.

(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 12.

The Parliamentary recess will be usee by the Government as an opportunity for continuous work on the problems still awaiting a solution. The session which has just closed was to enable emergency measures to be earned into law and now Ministers have to decide upon the lines of a long-term policy. The Prime Minister forecasts a comprehensive statement soon after the reassembly of Parliament on February 2, though a full development of the Government’s proposals will probably have to await the Budget statement.

The two subjects which it is generally expected will occupy the time of the Cabinet during the recess are, first, an international conference on reparations and debts, which it is assumed will take place soon after the experts at Basle have completed their report; and secondly, the fiscal policy.

The Cabinet will be in session continuously next week and later the Prime Minister hopes to get away to Lossiemouth for a short rest. It is understood the Board of Trade will probably issue another order under the Abnormal Importations Act making some alterations in the present orders as the result of experience and subjecting certain new categories of goods to a duty. This will not apply, however, to iron and steel.