GREAT EVENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 10

GREAT EVENTS

FRUITS OF IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

GJEfIMANY IN THE WORLDS

TRADE

REMARKS BY HON. A. D. M'LEOD,

Brief roferenccs. to two important events in world politics —the Imperial Conference and the admission of Germany to the League of Nations —were made by the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. A. I>. H'Leocl), when he • addressed the conference of Associated Chambers of Commerce today. "Great happenings have taken place recently," said Mr. M'Lood, "anil in that connection I might refer to the Imperial Conference, which has just come to a close. We are not yet in this country quite in, a position to say what will arise or what will be the fruits of the great conference, but it must be evident to all who take keen notice of these matters —and I am quite sure you all do—that the present conference has materially altered, or is going to alter, our position with the head of the Empire. It; has set out a different status for tho King himself and his representatives, which has apparently met with the approval of all the Dominions, and is, we believe and sincerely hope; one further step in cementing with looser chains —if I may use the ' expression—the feeling that we have for one another in the various portions of the Empire. (Applause.) "Quite recently there lias been another very important happening, which must reflect itself particularly along the lines of commerce and trade. I refer to tho Geneva Conference, and the free admission as an equal of that great Powor, which we, for three or four yea.rß, did our best to put under. War and the results of war do not pass away ho quickly, but the feelings of war have the happy knack of dissolving, and we as Britishers are able to 1 shake lianas with our enemies. (Applause.) The admission o£ such a great country, carrying such a large population, and' having such"' great recuperative powers, must have a big effect on trade, not only in New Zealand, but throughout the world."