EMPIRE TRADE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 75, 25 June 1928, Page 3

EMPIRE TRADE

CO-OPERATIVE RELATIONS.

83,000 SOCIETIES. WINNIPEG, June 13. The importance and growth of cooperative trade relations through the Empire, particularly between Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, were featured 1 at to-day’s session of the world’s wheat pool conference at Regina. Delegates rose and cheered when a cable from Sir Horace Plunkett which re;id: “In my 10 years of co-operative endeavour I have seen no liner economic and social service rendered to land workers than that of wheat pools,” it s:flid. “Their existence has been fully justified and their success is assured.” Sir Thomas Allen, representing the Imperial Government and the British Empire Marketing Board, said that within the Empire alone there were 83,000 producing societies, registered under one or other of special Acts governing co-operative societies.