UNITED EMPIRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 358, 20 October 1932, Page 5

UNITED EMPIRE

Kec. Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. I Rugby, October 18. e Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, in the e of Connnons. prefaced a stateon the Ottawa agreements by ring, if suecess at the Ottawa

jrence resulted m mcreased pro;y of the United British Emtliat then it was the largest contion whieh the Empire could towards the restoration of the erity in the world. The conce had resulted in a better unmding by different members of Impire of one another's difficulThe new departure was that for L'st time the whole Colonial Emlad been brought into negotiaThe United Kingdom's policy rst to help their own home mar-

id, secondly, to give an expandhare of the import market to ominions. He believed they had j it Ottawa the foundation of a i Imperial Agricultural Associaong opposition to the agree- » was voiced by Mr. George iury, Leader of the Labour Opon and by Sir Herbert Samuel, half of the section of the Liberal ■Lvhicli he leads. F Herbert Samuel's Opposition

•Herbert Samuel stated it would ■been impossihle for himself and Blleagues to express the views on ■a, which it was incumbent for Ko express if they had remaihed ■ Mhsistry, flNpncellor had passed over an HfflJ'he agreements consisting of Bposition of fresh duties, raisBesli barriers throughox.it the Ke. He urged that the insertion Blausa providing for six months' Rto alter the agreements should m assumed. Be agreements had been univers■pproved by the Dominions and Bvernment had no right to create Spossible constitutional situation ptempt to tio up their successor jpne the British electorate withwds^ which would surely burst *r if the measure was carried ipresent form of operating for Ip'S. The Liberals regard it as »y to constitutional practice. Bjust be free in future to modify ftal the measures as conditions ■ Too Much Protection (e a^so was a long list of duties Bcan only be repealed with the M of the Dominions. Hitherto, Ipsh Parliament had been free W or repeal taxes without outRnsent. These measures make ■ one of the world's most com■piotected countries. It was Rddest tariff ever thrown toBolitical scientist could have K ea it except in a nightmare. ffioyment had increased by 300,Be the taritfs were instituted. uniting the Commonwealth, ■ „ brought a vehement conm throughout the Empire. It *ght the needs of the poorest B" 0 confliet with the claims W 011 bebalf of Imperial patHjcullin had given notice that ■an Labour would not be bound |§ years' agreement if it m power and the Canadian OpM Leader rogardect the. five B °P°sal as fundamentally I B.Lanshury'5 Strictures I KT "aniI>erlain had explainBtn a if anC^ had un■1° allow British manufacturcompetitive chance hy re- « app lcation of these prinB^mpartial tariff boards; ^ Kd inffi* ?f .the OPP'osiBsreon? am be repre_ ■tss™ repiied that it ■ot J flry Question. He ■d SUJ® tbouSht that any■of that tIle represB tariff b ^ei' C0Untry should ■ impose°aBrv fC.ide what " m had been ^terests, K of Z ,assured of an Ktry said tif °asC" |Bad driven ? Dominions ^B' fremenrU a bargam giv- : ■i% aiivn -S gam withoilt ■fc the a ng- was not f ,!f!Clla^Ior's speech wKf iv Brit?lng Pr°duce H^Rbought tl 'n ^0r ^nsfance, ■ ^ CanMkrT? ^thecon^Voant that tleXport trade' ehtL 'F, were Hke |^^plectors »a r tradesHior', ' «"» ' tte Govern- ' »• SscaT a wa.s not j ac^er5r- British ^^g^j-ssisted by the

j neither prosp'erity nor contentment to anyone in Britain. Britain would enter the- World Economic Conference prejudiced and hindered hy these arrangements. Any chanee they might have possessed of producing international co-operation had been practically lost. Happenings in the Canadian and Australian Parliaments showed considerable opposition to the Ottawa proposals.