OTTAWA CONFIDENCE
development or empire. OTTAWA, Wednesday. ‘ ‘ Mutual advantage to every section of the Empire will be the objective of the Imperial Economic Conference here in July,” the Premier, Mr R. B. Bennett, stated in the .House of Commons to-day. The Premier himself will head the Canadian delegation. Mr Bennett said that he believed the conference must ‘ ‘ sit down and consider the development of the resources of the Empire.” These resources were scattered over the world. He had always believed in trade reciprocity as between the different parts of the Empire. , ... The British Commonwealth constiuted “the greatest estate which Providence ever gave to a people,” the Premier stated, and its development was a trust. At tho Ottawa Conference an endeavour would be made so to adjust relations that 'benefits would accrue to all parts of the Empire. In reply to a question if the statement he made at the 1930 Imperial Conference offering preference “based on 10 per cent, preference,” was hard and fast, Mr Bennett said “that was by way of illustration only.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 May 1932, Page 2
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