OTTAWA CONFERENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18604, 6 April 1932, Page 7

OTTAWA CONFERENCE.

HIGH HOPES ENTERTAINED AN EMPIRE CURRENCY. INVITATION TO INDIA. United Press Assn..—Elec. Tel. Copyright. MONTREAL, April 4. In the course of an address to members of the Canadian Club at Montreal, the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Mr 11. 11. Stevens, said: “At the forthcoming Empire Economic Conference at Ottawa questions of inter-Empire trade will be carefully and efficiently studied. High hopes are entertained that practical results will be achieved. ■ " In my opinion, however, the most notable service which the British Empire could render to the perplexed and harassed world would be for the Commonwealth to find a solution of the problem of currency. The Canadian Parliament, recognising the necessity of a monetary system which will ensure the stability of inter-Empire exchange, has instructed its delegates to promulgate the question at the conference and do all they can to achieve this most desirable end."

LONDON, April 4

The Government of India has accepted the invitation to send a delegation to the Ottawa Conference. It has been informed that the conference will discuss the policy of trade agreements between the different countries of the Empire and it has been invited In particular to consider whether, having regard to the new British tariff policy, Britain and India should enter into a tariff agreement embodying a reciprocal preferential regime designed to benefit the trade of both.

Sir A. Chatterjee, formerly High Commissioner for India, will lead the Indian delegation. The other members will bo Mr Shanmukham Chetty, Deputy President of the Legislative Assembly; Sir Padamji Ginwala, president of the Indian Tariff Board, Mr A. H.' Haroon, a prominent Karachi merchant, Sahibazada Abdul Samad Khan, Chief Minister of the Rampur State, and Sir George Rainy, retiring Member for Commerce in the Viceroy’s Council.

LATER. / - BUSINESS ADVISERS. FAVOURED BY GOVERNMENT. United Press Assn.—Elev. Tel. Copyright. (Received April 6, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. In the House of Commons, answering Captain Peter MacDonald (M.P*. for Isle of Wight), Mr J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions, said the Government favoured attaching business advisers to the British delegation to Ottawa. They were communicating with the Dominions. This was equally applicable to the representatives of organised Labour.