EMPIRE TRADE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13526, 7 November 1911, Page 2

EMPIRE TRADE.

BRITISH ANXIETY. LONDON, November 4. Mr -i. J. Balfour, leader of the Opposition, speaking in the House of Commons yesterday,, emphasised the anxiety of the British trading community with regard to the disorganisation of the present arrangements under which trade is carried on with the oversea Dominions, owing to the demand of the colonies to make their own trade treaties. ' Donald McMaster, Conservative mem-bei-for Chertscy, has given notice that he will ask whether in attempting to re-nego-tiate trade treaties Ministers propose to follow the hues of the Japanese treaty of 1911, thus precluding the imposition of preferential duties, and blocking the road to effective reciprocity within the Empire ? ■