INTER EMPIRE TRADE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1928, Page 4

INTER EMPIRE TRADE

SIR BENJAMIN MORGAN’S MISSION. WELLINGTON, July 3. “What you have done so successfully with your meat you can do with your dairy produce, fruit, honey, and other products.” Such was the view expressed by Sir Benjamin Morgan, chairman of the British Empire Sugar Federation, and the Empire Tobacco Federation, who arrived by the Makura to-day.

“1 am touring, the Empire,” lie explained, “with a view to promoting inter-Empire trade and particularly to arrange for a continuity of supplies of primary products to the British market. I intend visiting Canada, Nev Zcaland- Australia 1 , South Africa, East Africa and Mauritius. ’l'he Empir> Producers’ Organisation is a Federation of Producers’ Associations of primary products in the Empire, and we want to do in regard to dairy produce, fruit, and other food supplies, what you in New Zealand have so successfully done with your Meat Producers’ Board, with the foundation of which we were proud to be associated . Questioned as to the operations e” the Empire Marketing Board, Sir Benjamin Morgan referred in the highei • terms to the effectiveness of the wor.c cf that Board. “Through its fun: tions,’’ he said “Empire buying has become an article of faith in ncarl every family in the Mother Country. The Empire Marketing Board .s spent jug nearly a million pounds a year i . advertising English products and to research work, with a view to malc-in; it possible for those products to bo carried over the high seas to the cor ■ sumer in Great Britain in prim® con dition. While we have not been abb. to give the Dominions n tariff prefer etico on Empire foodstuffs, we lisiv* l been able through the operations o' this Empire Markeing Board, to create a demand which is even -greater tha. the present capacity to supply in tile, majority of essential food products. This is the conception and work o that great Empire statesman, Mr Amery, whose life work lias been to promote the unity of the Empire. “T didn’t come, to New Zealand to preach Imperialism,'’ Sir Benjamin Morgan concluded, “for this Dominion is as essentially British as (»rea < Britain herself, but to confer with your men of affairs as to hew vc eair strengthen trade ties with the Mother Country.”