OTTAWA DECISIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18777, 27 October 1932, Page 8

OTTAWA DECISIONS.

OPINIONS IN THE LORDS. - i. | : t ;? HA SUPREME FAILURE.” foundation for better trade. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. copyright (Received Oct. 27, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 26. In the House of Lords, Lord Arnold drew attention to the Ottawa Conference, which he described as a “supreme failure," owing to Canada’s refusal to agree to the progressive liberation of trade within the Empire. A complete breakdown was only avoided by Britain accepting incredibly unfair and lopsided provisions. Lord Elibank said: “Lord Arnold has failed to awake to the new era. Free trade as we knew it is fortunately dead. Future issues only concern high or low tariffs and preferences. Lord Beaverbrook said there were no sacrifices about the Ottawa agreements, which would benefit both Britain and the Dominion peoples. He regretted the agreements did not go further in the direction of free trade within the Empire—an ideal which he was sure would ultimately be real ised. He strongly favoured the duty on foreign meat. Lord Hailsham, in replying, said: “OttaAva did not build the edifice but laid the foundations which would result in better trade within the Empire.” - sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State lor the Colonies, said the Colonies had reason for satisfaction with the Ottawa results. Hitherto they bad received preferences only from Britain, Canada and New Zealand. Now Australia, South, Africa, Newfoundland, India, and Southern Rhodesia, also give the Colonies preferences, the Colonies reciprocating, givins preferences to all Empire goods. Mr H. Holdsworth (National Labour—Bradford South) said that nobody in the woollen Industry expeoted increased ‘ trade to result from the Ottawa- agreements. Canada had given Bradford a five-foot wall to Jump instead of a wall as high as a house, but she could jump neither. The Canadian tariffs were absolutely prohibitive.

REJECTION MOVED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright; (Received Oct. 27, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 26. In the House of Commons, Mr W. Lunn (Labour —Rothwell, York), moved the rejection of the Ottawa Agreements Bill on behalf of Labour on the grounds that it increased the burden of indirect taxation and would do nothing to solve unemployment. The Ottawa agreements, he declared, would not give work to a single man, but strangled' the world’s economic conference beforehand, whereas international co-operation was required. He said they were setting out on an economic war which might lead to a blood feud which would destroy civilisation.