TO DEVELOP EXPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 717, 17 July 1929, Page 9

TO DEVELOP EXPORTS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT WILL REVIEW TRADE PROMPT INVESTIGATION British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, in a speech at Edinburgh, said the immediate problem in the British trading industries turned upon the export trade. The coal exports were better than for some time, but well behind the pre-war totals. One of the most difficult problems that the Government had to face was how to secure that drastic internal reorganisation which was required. How to maintain peace in the industry, especially when the existing agreements began to expire in December of the present year, was another problem. Cotton, like iron and steel, would be the subject of immediate review by the Government, and in the course of a few days he hoped to announce in Parliament the form that these inquiries would take. There would be no delay. The whole object was to get a competent but expeditious review, aqd to use all the material bearing on every aspect of the cotton, iron and steel industries offered either by the employers or the trade unions. Whatever might be their view of the future organisations of industry, those steps were essential in the schemes to restore the value of the home market, and to give Britain renewed chances in the exports market.