TRADE POLICY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20298, 7 May 1934, Page 5

TRADE POLICY.

Ministers Discuss Empire Position. MORE CO-OPERATION WANTED. Per Press Association AUCKLAND, May 6. An important conference took place yesterday between the Right Hon S. M. Bruce, Australian High Commissioner, and the Prime Minister (Mr Forbes), the Right Hon J. G. Coates and the Hon R. Masters. Mr Bruce was passing through Auckland en route from Sydney* to London, and from the time he left the Monterey after breakfast until he rejoined the steamer tn the afternoon he was engaged with the New Zealand Ministers in a private conference. Subsequently, the following joint statement was issued by Mr Forbes and Mr Coates: Mr Bruce gave the New Zealand Ministers a first-hand account of recent developments and outlook, as viewed by him, in world economic conditions and in the position of the United Kingdom. His summary was of very great interest and value to the New Zealand Ministers. It bore out and amplified the conclusions they themselves had formed as the result of personal discussions and contacts with the British Government and the trend of more recent events, that the onrush on to the markets of the United Kingdom of the world’s surplus products had led her to adopt new and experimental courses which were of direct concern to, and called for some co-operation by, Empire supplying countries. It was agreed by all Ministers that any policy that looked to the improvement of market conditions must be based on full co-operation between over seas producers and farmers in the United Kingdom. The removing of any misunderstanding of their common interests was regarded as the most important part of the task ahead.