ALL FOR EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2694, 14 February 1916, Page 3

ALL FOR EMPIRE

NEW LEAGUE AND ITS OBJECTS. "That' tlio delegates hero assembled to-night form themselves into an All for limpire League for the elimination of enemy trado l'rom within the British Empire." This resolution was carried by the annual conference of the United Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association of New Zealand, held at Christchurch on Thursday. The special preliminary objects of the league, states tho "Press," were adopted as follow: — 1. To ensure the safety of the British Empire by advocating more efficient means of defence, both military and naval, unity between the self-governing States and dependencies uf the Empire and the Mother Country. 2. To secure a clean, loyal, and patriotic citizenship, by promoting legislation making it impossible for alien subjects, the laws of whoso country of origin permit of their retaining citizenship in that country while subscribing allegiance to another State, to obtain letters of naturalisation or tho ngncs of citizenship in New Zealand. 3. To obtain legislation making it illegal for aliens to hold property in land or in tho shares of any joint stocn company trading in New Zealand. 4. To foster closer trade relationships between the Mother Country, New Zealand, and the sister States of the Empire, by means of reciprocal tariffs and preferential trade treatment. 5. To promote reciprocal tariffs and the "most favoured nation treatment" in the tariff relationships between New, Zealand and Britain's Allies in the present war—Belgium ,o Prance, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Russia, and Serbia. 6. To aim as far as possible at the elimination of German trado within the Empire, by the adoption of an absolutely prohibitive tariff and increased shipping dues on all German and present enemy vessels visiting New Zealand ports. 7. To conduct by Press propaganda a publicity campaign with the view of keeping the people of New Zealand alive to the tremendous issues involved in Germany's attempt to dominate the commerce of tho world. 8. To make traffic in German goods impossible in New Zealand by securing definite pledges from members of the league that they will not . purchase goods made in Germany or of enemy origin from any merchant or storekeeper, and that the.v will not knowingly deal with merchants or storekeepers who have purchased German or other enemy goods since August, 1914.