PLEA FOR EMPIRE TRADE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20028, 8 February 1935, Page 9

PLEA FOR EMPIRE TRADE

DIFFICULT POSITION OF NEW ZEALAND HIGH COMMISSIONER’S HOPEFULNESS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 6. Sir James Parr, High Commissioner for New Zealand, who presided at a dinner given by the New Zealand Society at the Savoy, welcomed Mr J. H. Thomas (Secretary for the Dominions) and Mr W. E. Elliot (Minister of Agriculture). Sir James said, in reference to the meat negotiations, that Mr Elliot’s office was one of extreme difficulty and delicacy. No two men in the Imperial Cabinet carried greater responsibility than Mr Thomas and Mr Elliot. The Dominion representatives in the past year learned with gravity of Mr Elliot’s problem. “I hope that Mr Thomas and Mr Elliot,” said Sir James, “have come to learn that the carrying 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 have all gone, leaving kinship as the common bond. Mutually profitable trade between Britain and the Dominions, is the best cement to hold our strange Commonwealth together and negotiations are still continuing in the friendliest way.” ott’shshrdlu cmfwyp

CANADAS SURPLUS BUTTER SUBSIDY SCHEME PROPOSED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SASKATOON, February 6. A scheme for subsidising exports of butter and cheese by a levy of one cent, per lb. on butterfat, was laid before the Saskatchewan Dairying Council by Mr A. C. Fraser, secretary of the National Dairy Council, to avert the probability of a crisis in July, when the surplus butter over Canadian requirements, will force down prices. He said objection from Britain was unlikely as Australia had subsidised exports for years.

EMPIRE SUGAR PRODUCERS PROTEST AGAINST ACTION OF 8.8. C. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 8, 12.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 7. At a meeting of the sugar section of the Empire Producers’ Organisation, at which Mr Pike represented Queensland a protest was made to the 8.8. C. against the recent broadcast by an economist dealing with the Cuban sugar industry, which claimed to show Empire sugar in an unfavourable light. The meeting asked the Corporation to allow a broadcast stating the case for Empire growers.