MR COATES IN CANADA

Evening Star, Issue 19456, 14 January 1927, Page 4

MR COATES IN CANADA

EMPIRE TRADE STRESSED RESULTS OF IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, January 12. At Montreal to-day Mr Coates told tho Canadian Club that be would conI'er with Mr Mackenzie King; in Ottawa on Canadian-New Zealand trade. Ho said that closer relations were brought about not so much through legislation as by the action of industrialists and merchants. Mr Coates said that Canada was selling five times as much to New Zealand as she bought from tho southern dominion. He added; “One result of tho Imperial Conference is that the bonds which connect the dominions of the British Empire together are stronger tlian ever. All the delegates were confident on this point.” Mr .Coates expressed the view that the work of the Imperial Conference would ensure the solidarity of tho Empire. There was no danger in selfgovernment by the dominions that was real. Mr Coates pleaded for more business “within the family-” Ho emphasised the desire of Now Zealand to see more Canadian business men in person. “Wo must trade with all nations, but it seems to me that the task rests on the shoulders of everybody within the Empire that, if we value our reputations, we should endeavor wherever possible to do business among our own people within our own family. It_ is New Zealand’s desire to do business with her own people. We are anxious to do business witn Canada.”