IN CO-OPERATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20151, 21 May 1928, Page 7

IN CO-OPERATION

GENEVA AND ROME Collaboration on Agricultural Matters SUGGESTED CHANGE IN STATUS [ By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright ] [ Australian Press Assn. | Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. GENEVA, May 19. The League of Nations is being asked to keep the Romo Institute advised on agricultural matters, and efforts are being made for collaboration between the two organisations. Tho suggestion that the Institute should function under the League or be disbanded and an agricultural section be created at the League has been the subject of private conversations, which have resulted in practically no steps being taken to disturb the existing status. Similarly, the coal and sugar questions have been side-stepped and the League has merely been asked to inquire into tho question with a view to later action. THE GENOA CONFERENCE TARIFFS ON FOREIGN GOODS. ECONOMIC PEACE THE AIM [ Australian Press Assn. 1 LONDON, May 18. Among the observers attending the economic conference at Genoa are a number of representatives of American trusts. One who has just concluded a course ot' inquiries over Europe toll a Daily Telegraph correspondent that the only hope o/. his country or the continent ot Europe lowering tariffs was for the whole British Empire to put high tariffs on foreign manufactured goods. A feature of the day was a speech by Mr Vernon Willey ex-president of the Federation of British Industries, who said that tho employers shared the workers’ impatience at existing conditions. Full, clear prompt information must be supplied from all countries in order to steady trade and avoid alternations of booms and depressions, which cause fluctuations leading to unemployment and misery. Professor Laur (Switzerland) protested that the economic conference had never sanctioned the idea of free trade. Economic peace was the supreme aim.