CANADIAN WHEAT.
SHIPMENTS VIA NEW YORK. PREFERENCE REFUSED. ’ LONDON, December 21. The Customs Department has decided that preference under the Ottawa Act cannot be accorded a test shipment of Canadian wheat to Liverpool, via New York. The Customs contend that while Canadian origin in indisputed, there is no evidence that the wheat was definitely consigned to Britain when it left Canada. TRADE TREATIES. PROPOSED ABROGATION. RUGBY, December 21. The president of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, was asked in the House of Commons whether, in view of the opinions expressed by the various Chambers of Commerce, he .would now enter upon a policy designed for abrogation of existing Treaties and to enable all Colonies to give effective preference to Great Britain. The Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, Major Colville, replied that it was proposed to consult the organisations representing the trade generally so soon as relevant facts could be put before them. —(British Official Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Age, 23 December 1932, Page 2
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159CANADIAN WHEAT. Wairarapa Age, 23 December 1932, Page 2
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