INTER-EMPIRE TRADE.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 7

INTER-EMPIRE TRADE.

MR FORBES DISAPPOINTED. PUBLIC DECLARATION EXPECTED. MR SNOWDEN STUMBLING BLOCKUnited Press Assn. —Eleo. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, October 23. It is learned that Mr Forbes intends to take an early opportunity of publioly declaring that as far as New Zealand is concerned the important work of the conference ended with the British Government’s refusal to entertain preferential tariffs. He will express disappointment, but not resentment, at being forced to accept as Anal the decision announced inside and outside the conference by Mr Snowden. Mr Forbes will point out that while Mr Ramsay MacDonald throughout insisted that every means of trade development be open to consideration no steps were taken to refer to the committees the case for preference as made out by the Dominion's delegates, though Britain’s alternatives of quotas and bulk purchases were being daily analysed by the committees. BEAVERBROOK’S CAMPAIGN. REPLY TO MR BALDWIN. SEEKING PARTY LEADERSHIP. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. • Copyright. (Received October 24, 2.35 p.m-) LONDON, October 23. Speaking at South Paddington in reply to Mr Stanley Baldwin, Lord Beaverbrook said there had been some talk of a quarrel between Mr Baldwin and himself, but there was nothing he regretted more than the fatal difference regarding the path by which they should approach the future. He added: “Mr Baldwin asks for our support; but we reject his proposal for a free hand to tax or not to tax foreign foodstuffs as circumstances may dictate. We want an immediate positive policy of Empire free trade, based on the imposition of duties on foreign foodstuffs.” Replying to an interjeclor, Lord Beaverbrook replied that he was seeking the Leadership of the Conservative Party.

IN THE, BALANCE.

DOMINION’S WANING HOPES,

LONDON, Oct. 23

An article is published in the Morning Post under the headings: “Imperial Conference in the Balance” and “Waning Hopes of Empire Economic Co-operation.” The writer says:— Considerations of courtesy, and the hope that private negotiations with British industrialists may in some measure compensate for the impending failure of the conference alone keep certain of the more important Dominions’ delegations in London. The opinion in Dominion circles ,is emphatic that the stand taken by the British delegation precludes any hope of the conclusion of adequate trade arrangements.