IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18157, 23 October 1930, Page 8

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

PREFERENTIAL TRADES. ONLY FAINT ENCOURAGEMENT, MERELY A PINPOINT RAY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received October 23, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 22. Upon the work of the Graham, Committee virtually depends the success or failure of preferential trade, which is the' major issue in the minds of the Dominion delegates. They have exhausted every line of argument and every inducement to clinch existing preferences and gain others. They are drawing faint encouragement from Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s assurance that " the door is still open,” though in the estimation of the Australians the light coming through the chink is a mere pinpoint ray. Settlement and Migration. The Overseas Settlement Committee held its. first meeting this afternoon, when it heard depressing stories of all the Dominions’ inability, owing to economic stress, to open their doors to British migrants.