§ 33. Rear-Admiral SUETERasked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether, in view of the report of the Council of the Mercantile Marine Association, which discloses that one-sixth of our mercantile fleet lay idle in British ports in 1931 while 56,000 seamen of all grades were unemployed, he will give an assurance that this matter will be brought before the Ottawa Conference with the view of getting our Dominions, in trading with the Empire, to ship British?
Mr. THOMASThe Agenda of the Ottawa Conference is at present under discussion between His Majesty's Government in Canada and His Majesty's Governments in the United Kingdom and in the other Dominions, and I am not at present in a position to indicate what specific subjects will be included.