OTTAWA CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18622, 28 April 1932, Page 7

OTTAWA CONFERENCE

BRITISH TRADERS’ HOPES. ENLARGED TRADE VOLUME. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, April 27. Commercial experts in the Dominions and Colonies now are formulating definite proposals for the Ottawa Conference, says the Daily Telegraph. There is a conviction that the conference will result In a big increase in the volume of trade within the Empire. British manufacturers hope to secure Empire business now 7 in the hands of the United States, Germany, and other foreign countries. Measures to encourage Dominion imports of iron, steel, and textiles probably will figure largely in the Imperial programme. Australian and New Zealand business men agree that the conference will find many directions in which reciprocal agreement will greatly enlarge the volume of trade from one side to the other.

LATER. ITS OBJECT DEFINED. MINISTER REPLIES TO MEMBER. (Official Wireless.) (Received April 28, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 27. Replying in the House of Commons to Mr James Maxton (Labour —Budgelon, Glasgow), Mr J. Thomas (Secretary of State for the Dominions) said the object of the Ottawa Conference was to fully examine means whereby inter Imperial trade could be maintained and extended, lie hoped one of the most valuable results would be an increase of employment throughout the Empire.

LABOUR’S DELEGATES. MESSRS BROMLEY AND CITRINE. (Official Wireless.) (Received April 28, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 27. The general council of the Trade Union Congress lias appointed Mr J. Bromley chairman and Mr Walter Citrine general secretary as advisers to accompany the Government delegation to advise on industrial questions at the Ottawa Conference.