WOULD DAMAGE EMPIRE

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1935, Page 5

WOULD DAMAGE EMPIRE

BRITAIN’S QUOTA POLICY SIR JAMES PARR’S VIEW TRADE THE BEST CEMENT NEGOTIATIONS DELICATE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright London, Feb.. 6.. Sir James Parr, New Zealand High Commissioner, presiding at the New Zealand Society’s dinner at the Savoy and welcoming Mr. J. H. Thomas and Mr. W. E. Elliot, said with reference to the meat negotiations that the latter’s office was one of extreme difficulty and delicacy. No two men in Cabinet carried a greater responsibility than Mr. Thomas (Dominions Secretary) and Mr. Elliot (Minister of Agriculture). The Dornin-: ion representatives in the past year had learned the gravity of Mr. Elliot’s problem. "I hope that Mr. Thomas and Mr. Elliot have come to learn that the carry-, ing out of a drastic policy against the Dominions will not only nearly ruin us who are Britain’s best friends and customers, but will irretrievably damage the development of the Empire, as the former constitutional links between Britain and the Dominions are all gone, leaving kinship as the common bond. Mutually profitable trade between Britain and the Dominions is the best cement to hold bur strange commonwealth together. Negotiations are still continuing in the friendliest way.”