AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.)

TREATY OF 1815. A U STRALLAN REQUEST. WASHINGTON, Dee. 31.- - It is understood that during his visit to the State Department Air Bruce took up the matter of business on the basis of tho Treaty of 1815 with Britain, under which the United States permitted, without exception, all the privileges of a stay in America to citizens of Britain and its possessions in Europe. This treaty was discovered during the visit of an official to the State Department, and it has been suggested that ail amendment of the latter phrase would give Australian business men the same privileges as British. This led Mr Bruce to take up the subject, and it is understood that the State Department will go into the matter and take advice thereon.

Owing to the holiday to-day, Air Bruce had the least occupied day of anv since his arrival.

lie yesterday attended a presidential luncheon, at which the various heads of departments and notables were present. He also addressed the Eliglish-Sneaking Union.

HTs visit concluded officially to-day. The State Department representatives bade farewell to Mr Bruce and his party at the station, when he departed for Montreal. POLAR EXPLORATION. ' NFAV YORK, .Tan. 1. Captain Wilkins announced yesterday nt Detroit that he would make a second attempt to explore the Arctic “blind spot” in a spring expedition financed entirely by tho “Detroit News.” N.Z. BETTER IN U.S.A. NFAV YORK, .Tan. 2. Nineteen hundred thousand pounds of Now Zealand butter, including a direct shipment to New York, which arrived in December, sold readily. It is of tho highest quality. AIOR.K QUAKESVANOOUVHR. Jan. 2. Recurrent earth shocks to-day increased the damage at Calexico and Mexicali. Fire destroyed two buildings. VIEWS OF AIR BRUCE. OTTAWA, .Tan. 2. Air Bruce and party arrived .at Alontreal in a snowstorm and extremely cold weather, being immediately taken to Mr Thornton’s home for breakfast. The 'Prime AFinister received the Press shortly afterwards, answering questions for an hour or more. Ginadian pressmen showed great interest in the internal development of Australia. and the trade relations between the Commonwealth and the Dominion.

Air Bruce expressed the belief that the Canadian -Australian treaty was functioning beneficially, but that the true value of such an arrangement would he more clearly discernable over a, period of years. He intimated th>.t the treaty was pointing the way to similar arrangements between all the Dominions.

Air Bruce was asked whether Australian objected to Canadian goods receiving Australian preference, if they were made in industries finlanced' by American capital. Air Bruce replied that there was no objection to American capital in this connection. The provision in reference to a percentage of British labour entering goods receiving preference was to assure two Particular objects: first, the general idea of preference to British goods as such, and, second, no matter what was the source of the finance behind a certain industry, whether British or American, or otherwise, there was benefit accruing to a British country if the labour entering into lrfinufacture of tho goods was British. This was at once the principal purpose of the Treaty, and to permit onl.v’a small percentage of British labour in goods receiving preference in Australia would defeat this purpose.

Questioned whether there v,lis a likelihood of the early appointment of an Australian Commissioner in Canada in view of the naturally augmenting trade", Mr Bruce replied that Austral it was anxious to further in every possible way trade relationships between the two countries, and while in Canada he would learn what the sentiment was in reference to the appointment of such a representative. Mr BRUCES’ BOOST. NEW YOR.Iv, January 3. “United States is far too modest about what it is accomplishing,” declared Mr Bruce, at a luncheon given in his Honour at Philadelphia by Rear Admiral Thomas Magruder. “We have uniformed persons running about, blow hard cliarlictistics of America. They say United States is too brazen about itself. Anything further from the truth could scarcely he imagined. He who knows his splendid country, a country tliftt Australia lias endeavoured to pattern herself after in many way. knows that United States does not do enough talking about itself. In fact it is independently modest. You are leading the world hut you do not let the world know it. No country is more misunderstood or more vilified. America needs to give the world a campaign of education.”