NOT SATISFIED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10305, 14 January 1927, Page 5

NOT SATISFIED

N.Z. WANTS MORE TRADE FROM CANADA MR COATES’ PERTINENT' FIGURES . (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) MONTREAL,, Jan. 13. Mr J. O. Cbates arrived here 'today. Though his immediate interest is apparently centred in matters of trade and industry, he did lot wish to discuss these until he has expounded his views of inter-Empire commerce to the Premier, Mr King, at Ottawa on Friday. The New Zealand Prime Minister emphatically denied, however, that his country is satisfied with the present trade relations with Canada. “We import five times as much as we export to you. That’s fine!” he remarked to the Montreal Produce Merchants’ Association’s representative, who asserted that New Zealand was reaping the benefit from a three cents reduction in the duty on butter from the Antipodes. —A. and N.Z.C.A.

“WITHIN THE FAMILY.” MR COATESWARPEAL FOR TRADE. “WE ARE ANXIOUS FOR BUSINESS WITH CANADA.” (Received Jan. 13, 8.20 p.m.) OTTAWA, Jan. 12. Mr Coates expressed the view that the work of the Imperial .Conference would insure the solidarity of the Empire. There was no danger im s(elf-Governmen;t by the' Dominions that was real. Air Coates pleaded for more business “within the family.” He emphasised the desire of New Zealand to see more Canadian business men in the person. “We must trade with all nations,” he said, “but it seems to me the task rests on the shoulders of everybody within the Empire, that if we value our invitations we should endeavor wherever possible to do business among our own people, within our own family. It is New Zealand’s desire to do business with her own people. We are anxious to do business with Canada.” —A. and N.Z.O.A.

(Received Jan. 13, 9.20 p.m.) OTTA.WA, Jan. 12. At Montreal to-day Mr Coates told the Canadian Club he would cnofer with M*r Mackenzie King in Ottawa on Canadian-New Zealand trade. He said closer relations could he brought about not so much through legislation, as by the action of industrialists and merchants. Mr Coates said Canada was selling five times as much to New Zealand ■as she bought from the southern Dominion. He added: “One result of the Imperial Conference is that the bonds which connect the Dominions' of the British Empire together are stronger than ever. All the delegates were confident on this point.”—A. and N-Z.C.A.