§ 28. Mr. BOOTHBYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of His Majesty's Government's desire to help Empire trade, he has taken any steps to encourage the reciprocal enforcement of arbitration awards throughout the Empire as recommended in a resolution of the Imperial Economic Conference of 1923?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for COLONIAL AFFAIRS (Mr. Ormsby-Gore)I have been asked to answer this question. Copies of the resolution referred to were forwarded to the Dominions and Australian States in March, 1924, and to the Colonies and Protectorates in July, 1924. Legislation establishing reciprocity with this country is now in force in most of the Australian States, in the territories under the administration of the Commonwealth of Australia, in New Zealand, in Newfoundland, in Southern Rhodesia, and in almost all the Colonies and Protectorates. Some progress has also been made in the establishment of reciprocal arrangements in this matter as between various Dominions and Colonies.