THE POST-WAR TRADE COMMITTEE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2833, 26 July 1916, Page 7

THE POST-WAR TRADE COMMITTEE

WHY THE DOMINIONS ARE NOT REPRESENTED Australian-New Kealand Oablo AssoeiatKlii. London, July 24. In reply to a series of questions ia tlio House of Commons regarding: the representation of tlio Dominions on the committeo on industrial and commercial policy after tlio war, Mr. Asquith read a telegram sent by Mr. Bonar . Law (Colonial Secretary) to the Dominions in May. Tho message stated that the Government desired as soon as practicable to convene an Imperial Conference, to consider the commercial policy to be adopted after the war, and intimated ita intention, prior to tlio Conference, to form a committee in England to discover whether some agreement among the British parties on tho fiscal question was possible under the changed conditions caused by tho war. The meesago assured tho Dominions that the appointment of this committee, whatever its results, would not unduly'delay tha holding of tlio Imperial Conference, or intorfero with free discussion of tha problems with the oversea representatives. s The Dominion Governments had con-" curred, and the committee was accord-' ingly appointed. Mr. Mncmaster said that in Wow of tho fact that tho principle of representation of tho Dominions was recognised at the Paris Conference, was it not posBible,'in working out tho details of tha scheme, that tho Dominions should ha represented ? Mr. Asquith said thnt Mr. Hughej went to tho Paris Conference to represent tho Empirn, not any particular Dominion.