OTTAWA CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 July 1932, Page 5

OTTAWA CONFERENCE

DELEGATES CONCERNED. OVER NEWSPAPER REPORT. (Received Monday, 5.40 a.m.) CALGARY (Alberta), Sunday. Some concern w T as felt -among the delegations after their -arrival at Vancouver over the discovery after their arrival of an article in a British Columbian newspaper, quoting the views of Mr W. Goodfellow, a representative of the New Zealand dairy industry, on the Ottawa plan to assist butter, indicating that New Zealand would seek preference, and also quantitative restrictions upon foreign imports into Britain. Mr Stanley Bruce made representations to Mr J. G. Coates, who ascertained that Mr Goodfellow was adhering to the delegates’ undertaking not to disclose the plans prematurely. He had not been interviewed on disembarking at Victoria. The article apparently had been based on Mr Goodfellow’s speech to New Zealand dairymen in February, which does not represent the complete butter plan, as subsequently prepared and discussed with the Australian experts. Mr Coates to-day is contemplating telegraphing to Ottawa, explaining the position, to remove a misapprehension. Mr Bruce called the Australian delegation together again and warned them of the possible harmful consequences of announcing details -of their “cases for Ottawa” before being discussed at the conference, otherwise Commonwealth hopes might be prejudiced.