EMPIRE TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 9

EMPIRE TRADE

CANADA STEPPING IN

BUSINESSMEN'S *DRIVE

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

VANCOITVEB, 13th November

A mammoth plan to increase Canada's trade with the Motherland and the Empire has been adopted by the conference of .the Canadian Chambers of Commerce. It will supplement the policy of the Federal Government, announced when the effect of the new United States tariff on Canadian products was observed.

A committee, consisting of leading Canadian citizens, representing various branches of trade, commerce, agricuture ana education, will confer with all interested bodies and with similar committees appointed from various portions of the Empire as to the best ways and means by which trade within the Empire may be promoted. At the annual meeting in Toronto in 1930 a representative delegation of businessmen will bo invited from Newfoundland, that part of the Empire nearest the Dominion. Invitations will also be sent to the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the British W<jst Indies to have delegates in attendance. It was further decided by the national executive that the Canadian Chamber undertake the organising of a Canadian delegation to the Congress of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of tue British Empire, which is being held in London next May, and at which representatives of the Dominions will discuss with the Canadian delegation the furtherance of inter-Empire trade. A mission of Canadian businessmen to 'Sparse 4 H'"Ek" E ■»-

SOUTH AMERICA,

Arrangements will be* made for a to■SSE? m I*o. s Pri»S <* 1031 and extend a personal invitation to Latin American business men to join tho(hif aclian Chamber of OomnJee ifa Xv i tlO m, of th. c. Chamber in the-fall of 1931 Tho national executive approved the o°f l^of_° bjCCtiVeS f°r the WZI

TEe taking of referenda on national economic subjects. ' va "onai The organising of Dominion-wide inSSSSuf" preventioa a^d health --

fhi ds s r E n?r r f ersofc--"^ Specialised study of Canadian textbooks us tised in Canadian sc hool whfch are of foreign publication, and the circulation of foreign periodicals and newspapers in Canada. A good-will and trade tour in Canada of Latin-American businessmen in 1931 and support to the British Empire Exvear. lOa ** °S Air°B in *« «ame

A conference on national distribu.