OTTAWA PARLEY

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1932, Page 5

OTTAWA PARLEY

INDIA IS INVITED,

APPOINTMENT OF DELEGATES.

(liritith Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, April 4,

Tho Government of India have accepted an invitation to send a delegation to the Ottawa Impeiial Lconomic Conference. They have been informed the Conference will discuss policy and trade agreements between th e different countries of the Empire, and they have been invited in particular, to consider whether, haring regard to the new British Tariff policy, Great Britain and India should enter a tariff agreement embodying a reciprocal preferential regime designed to benefit the trade of both.

Sir A. Chatterjee (former High Com. missioner for India) leads the Indian delegation. Other members will he Mr Shanmukham Qhetty (Deputy President of the Legislative Assembly), Sir Padamji Ginwala (President of tire In c.ian Tariff Board), A. H. Haroun Dr prominent Karachi 'merchant), Sabibzada Abdul Samad Khan (Chief Minister of the Rampur State), and George Rainy (retiring Member for Commerce in the Viceroy’s Council).

business advicers, LONDON, April 5. In the House of Commons, answering Mr Peter MacDonald, Air J. H. Thomas said that the Government favoured attaching business advisers to the British delegation to Ottawa. They were communicating ivith the Dominions and this was equally applicable to representatives of organised labour.