EMPIRE’S PROGRESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 246, 16 September 1929, Page 7

EMPIRE’S PROGRESS.

SANE ECONOMIC POLICY ESSENTIAL. LORD MELCHETT’S VIEWS. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, Sept. 14. In accepting the chairmanship of the Empire Producers’ Organisation Council, Lord Melchett (formerly Sir Alfred Mond)-issued a statement that the peace and progress of not only the Empire, but also of the world would depend largely on a sane and wellfounded Empire economic policy free from the distorting effects of party controversy. There was no more important factor in this respect than the organisation of the producer on an Empire-wide basis. “I regard Empire free trade as a guiding ideal,” stated Lord Melchett. “It is tho genius of Britons to obtain the best practical results from an ideal without sacrificing legitimate local needs and aspirations. We must create throughout Britain faith in the Empire. It is of vital importance to our unity in peace and in war. Its resources and capacity for consumption, its markets and their development, are subjects so vast that wo have touched the fringe of them, and it is impossible to say what their limits may he.”

COAL FOR WHEAT. AGREEMENT WITH CANADA. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 15. It is reported that Mr J. H. Thomas Lord Privy Seal, is returning to England with an agreement that Canada will buy vast shipments of British coal in return for a guaranteed market for Canadian wheat.