EMPIRE PREFERENCE SUPPORTED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 11

EMPIRE PREFERENCE SUPPORTED.

CONSERVATIVES UNANIMOUS. (UNITZD TRESS ASSOCIATION —BY EI.ECTHIC TELEOBAIH COPTP.IOHT.) I/ONDON. November 17. "I can give an emphatic message to the Dominion Prime Ministers that the Conservative Party, unprecedentfy in history, is unanimous in support of Imperial preference." said BrigadierGeneral Sir Henry Page Croft (member of the House of Commons for Bournemouth) when speaking at Harrow. Mercifully within the year there would be the Ottawa Economic Confer, ence, when he hoped the Conservatives would be in office with a mandate which would save the Kmpire from threatened disruption. It was for the electorate absolutely to ensure that we Bhould clasp hands across the seas and establish the trade partnership which Mr ltamsay Mac Donald wantonly refused. Tll the House of Commons. Mr U. M. Gillett. Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, said the figures for 1929 showed that Canada. Australia. New Zealand. South Africa, and Ireland gave British goods tarifi nrefeiences representing €lo.000,0(*). Great Britain during the same period cave the Dominion" preference s amounting to £3.500 000.