TRADE WITHIN EMPIRE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1928, Page 9

TRADE WITHIN EMPIRE

A VIGOROUS POLICY URGED NEED TO HELP DOMINIONS DISCUSSION IN COMMONS By Telegraph—Press A-sn.—Copyright. Received March 15, 10 p.m. A.P.A. and Sun. London, March 14. Mr. Barclay Harvey moved in the House of Commons a motion in favour of a vigorous policy of furthering Imperial trade. Mr. L. S. M. S. Amery, Secretary to th© Dominions, said he was much struck everywhere he went during his recent tour of the Dominions with the immense progress in co-operative organisation, as well as th© state and method of production apart from primary production. Th© Dominions had taken i great forward step industrially. The Dominions’ tariffs might damage individual British industries, but as long, as they continued Empire preference wha' Britain lost in one direction she gained in another.

Mr. Amery said they had really reached a point when it would be a far greater disaster if the Dominions became free-traders for, alongside the protection of her own manufactures, Britain at present received protection against th© foreigner in other lines. Everything Britain did to help the growth of the Dominions’ population and to find markets for their produce in England would come back in the shape of greater trade. Seven and a half millions of people in Australia and New Zealand were buying more British goods than 120 millions in Europe.