THOMAS OFF TO CANADA
SEEKS NEW FIELDS FOR BRITISH WORKERS DISCUSSIONS ON TRADE British Official Wireless Reed. 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Minister in charge of the unemployment problem, left London today for Canada. Mr. Thomas’s main objects are to improve trade relations between the Home Country and Canada, and Investigate the question of immigration. He hopes to secure more markets for British goods, to alleviate unemployment in this country. From. Quebec, he will go to Ottawa, where a conference has been arranged with the Canadian Prime Minister and other Ministers. Mr. Thomas said in an interview: "I am leaving with the good wishes, I know, of all my fellow countrymen, in a mission which I hope will benefit us all. There is no aspect cf our economic relations that I will not * be prepared to discuss.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 11
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