CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1915, Page 3

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

'' ANNUAL CONFERENCE. EMPIRE TRADE. By Telegraph—Pres9 Association. Wellington, Yesterday. A long discussion too* place at the Chambers of Commerce Conference today on the question of Empire trade. The subject was introduced by a motion, moved by a Wellington delegate, urging the advisability of inaugurating a« movement to take advantage of the suspension of trade with enemy country, with the view, when peivrc was declared, of diverting such trade and developing trade within the Empire and with the Allied nations. It was also proposed to undertake the formation of a league, with the following primary object*: (I) Affording the people of the dominion the opportunity of uniting as one recognised body actively to support the cause of liritish Empire trading; (2) assisting one or more of the Xew Zealand patriotic funds by applying the net profits of tlio-'lcague for this purpose. It was urged by one of the speakers that (ierniany had pandered to our tastes with low freights, cheap goods and steamship lines. She had sugared the pill and we had swallowed it, and perhaps some money we had provided C.ermany with was being returned in the form of ammunition, rc-uiliing in such fearful British casualties. Xew Zealand should do its part by foregoing its passion, for shoddy foreign gno<N and paying a little more for good Pritisli manufacture. Finally, the conference adopted a motion to encourage Empire trade.