EMPIRE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

Evening Star, Issue 21747, 15 June 1934, Page 9

EMPIRE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

MONETARY DISCUSSION URGED NEXT CONFERENCE IN HEW ZEALAND Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Juno 13. A plea for the utilisation of the visit of the Prime Ministers to the King’s twenty-fifth anniversary for a family conclave on the Empire monetary system was made by Sir Arthur Shirley Benn in a valedictory address to the delegates to the Empire Chambers of Commerce conference. Ho said that the federation, though keenly advocating interimperial trade, had never tried to exclude foreign trade. There was a possibility in the not remote future that they would have no choice in the matter, but progress was limited until the situation had been satisfactorily dealt with. A resolution moved by Mr Sydney Jacobs, of Wellington, reaffirmed the principles of the Ottawa agreements as offering the best hope of prosperity in the trade and commerce of Empire countries and calling on all Empire Governments to maintain close contact with one another, and for a consultation of organised industry, commerce, and agriculture between the respective countries with the object of developing and extending interimperial preferences. The next conference was fixed to take place in New Zealand in 1936.