EMPIRE PROBLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1938, Page 2

EMPIRE PROBLEMS

TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. DISCUSSION AT RELATIONS CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 19. “The difficulty of assisting manufactures adequately is potentially the gravest single factor operating against the continuance of the Ottawa policy of trade,” said Dr W. B. Sutch, secretary to the Minister of Finance, on his return from the British Commonwealth Relations Conference. Discussion had shown, he said, a fairly general agreement that the Ottawa policy had assisted British countries, but had been an irritant to the rest of the world and had added to the difficulties of Northern and Central European countries in depriving them of part of their markets in the United Kingdom. Manufacturers in the Dominion and in the United Kingdom felt that the Ottawa agreements had assisted them. The discussions on migration revealed that the wholesale transference of people was a thing of the past, and that in future operations would be on restricted lines. Probably this would involve the transference of trained workers to countries where they were most needed. One suggestion was for an organisation with an Empire scope, perhaps as a result of initiative by trades union organisations, to supervise the training of men in skilled crafts and to assist in placing them in jobs. New Zealand’s dairy marketing methods were being watched with interest by Australia and other parts of the Empire.