IMPERIAL TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1466, 14 June 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL TRADE.

LONDON CONGRESS ENDS. DEBATE ON PREFERENTIAL TRADE. DOMINIONS AND DEFENCE. By Telcerapli—Fr'.ss Aasiiciation-CopTriclit. (Kcc. Juno 13, lO'.-lO p.iii.) London, Juno 12. Tho Cliamlje'rs of C.b.mm.ei'.c'o Congress has resolved that (ho next congress sj'ia.ll ba held nt Toroiitb: Tho King received : tlie- dolegStps at Buckingham I'alaec. One hundred iihil tweniy-fwo Chambers favoured a nio'tipii for priiet'ential trade. Nino voted against tho .m.pt.ibn, itiui fifty, eight did not tote Sir Albert Spicer, cfiniimtfii of fli.o last Congress, declared tliat .-.•Vustralia lias mado it elear'i'h'rtt did: n'p.t w-si.rit tiiiuii' concessions wiiioh it 'was. not in Britain's own interests, 'to give. There '--was. Tip h.u-, man possibility pf. the- British: electors agreeing to tax' food {or tlie- -s.olo b'ene'iit of the overseas Soiriiniohs., Mr. E. Trea'dWin (i.ustr'aii'a) urged -that it was the duty of the Motherland -to listen to the voiea of tlie- colonies ia tho matter of preference. The London .Chamber of;Cpmm«rco's motion in favou.r-;of; -tho -erifo.rcemeiit in .one part of the Empire of arbitration awards and judgments.-'giyeii. in ahother- part \y'as carried. Mr. Hedge'?. .(West Australia) asked what was the good of asking for legislation to enforc-o. awards in other parts of tlie Empire when they were unable io enforce in their, .own country .an industrial airard. opsirly 'lojite.d. by the men in labour disputes. FAREWELL BANQUET, SOME INTERESTING SPEECHES. (I'ec. Juno 13, U p.m.) London, June 13. Three hundred -guests -w'ero prespn't at the Gon'gr'ess bahr. quet. Mr. Secretary p£ State for (lie Colonies, presided. Sir George Peid, High 'Gpihiinssipner for Australia, in replying tp tho.. tnast, "Tho Imperial-Forces;''' .said: lie would' like to see tho Aniiv increased bv partial conscriptibri./'-'The, osjiy saUss'nciory way of establishingV-cbloiiial: navies was. by a monetary. c.)ni.ribiit.;nn to tho I:u----perial Goverri'mentj.. anil' .einplpyiug sels equivalent: solely in peace time - in tho waters of the con--tributing Dominion, tho vessels, to be available in war time for tho ]•;nip:re's service. .. Mr. Buxton,' President.' .of tlie Boorrl of. Trade, in replying to the toast- of "Par-, liament," referred; ;to' 'tlio. satisfactory v.bsults of sendin'g':: ; .p;ra.d.e'. Cofniriission6rs to the different Dominions. Peferring. to tlio ' present industrial unrest,. Mr. Buxton said ho hoped their colonial friends would assist th© Motherland: .'.to,- .bring-' capitai and labour to worK together for the ebnimon good. ■ Sir Algernon .Firth,- in replying to t-he Chambers of Cpminere? toast, fair! - thai over two hundred' - millions of. BritiViicapital had been -exported last year, ofwhich thirty-six millions wont to Caned a,' and only three-' and .a half niillipns to' Australia. Mr. J, M. Pnxfon,. of Sydney,- said the presence ef foreign Powers nt. no'groat distance had deinanded- Australia'?, jvatchfulness and had emphasised' the aty of her founding her own navy,-and' training her youth, in-defence. '"