TRADE COMMISSION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 March 1913, Page 5

TRADE COMMISSION.

SITTING IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday, The. Empire Trade Commission began its sitting here this afternoon when Mr Ma bin,' president of th? Chamber of Commerce, read a statement on the need of encouraging immigration, owing to the lack of labour for farm and industrial concerns. He suggested a preference for immigrants from Britain. 'Hie chamber thought a double income tax should be payable on the profits made in Ne v Zealand by manufacturers carrying on business here through agents. "He approved of uniform invoice certificates and bills of lading, and said there should be machinery for enforcing in one part of the Empire judgments and commercial a wank given in another part. All oil deposits should be developed where existing in British territory, so that the Em pire should not depend on foreign sources of supply. ! He referred to what was doing in Taranaki, on the West Coast, and in other parts of New Zeailand to develop the oil deposits. The Dominion could absorb a verv large number of new settlers, perhaps 10,000 a year, for many years to come.