THE PARIS ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2828, 20 July 1916, Page 5

THE PARIS ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

BRITAIN'S PRACTICAL. • ENDORSEMENT ' % P COMMITTEE APPOINTED i Australian-New, Zealand Oablo Association. (Eec. Juljf 19, 7.5 p.m.), London, July 18. . Mr. Asquith (tlie Prime Minister) has • appointed a committeo to 'consider Bri- ' tain's after-war commercial and indus- ' trial policy, :with special reference to tho Paris Economic Conference's recommendations. The Committee will inquire: (a) What industries are essential to the future safety of- the nation, and ' what steps: are necessary to establish « them; (b) What steps are necessary to recover.- the home ' and foreign .trade which has been lost-during the war, : and to secure new markets; (c) To what extent and by what means the Empire' 6 resources can be .developed; (d) To what extent and by what . means the Empiro's sources of supply can bo prevented from' railing- under foreign control. . ' - Tho Committee includes Lord Balfour ot Burleigh (chairman), Mr. Arthur J. Balfour (First Lord of the Admiralty), Mr. M.' Gosling (?), Mr. A. Af. S. Hewins, M.P. (Secretary of the Tariff Commission), Sir Alfred Mond, M. P., Sir p. .K. Smith, M.P., and Mr. G. J. Wnrdle, M.P:, together with Lord . committee. ' •

[The identity of "M. Gosling" is not Quito clear. There is no M. Gosling in tho House of Commons, and the only other likely persons are Mr. Cecil Gosling, British Minister at Bolinia, and Mr. Harry Gosjiing. head of the Transport Workers' Federation—extremes in probabilities. A cablo message from London, dated June 30, stated that, the British Board of Trade" had appointed a committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Faringdon, to consider how to meet the needs,.of British firms after the war regarding financial facilities for trade, particularly in reference to the financing of the large overseas contracts. The personnel of the committee was not stated.]