Little: Some Reasons for the Decision"
In connexion with our leader of +fagust 10 on the closing of the Australiin Trade Commissioner's office in Shanghai an Australian reader sends us the following report of a recent debate in the -\ustralian House of Commons, together with the Hansard report of the same debate in. confirmation, For a long time the trading community and the general public has recognized that the expensive trade commissioner service established.in the East by the Hughes Government was a futile extravagance, says tha "Melbourne Age" of July 25. Articles and reports published in "The Age" from time to time have demonstrated the absurdity and inefficiency of the system. Realization has now come to the Government. The Minister of Trade and Customs announced in the House of Representatives Yesterday that the Trade m+ missioner in China, Mr. E.' S. Little, has been given three months' notice to quit, and indicated that the whole question of trade representation in that part of the world is to be subject revision.
The question was introduced by the leader of the Opposition, who moved the adjournment of the House to draw attention to the unsatisfactory position in regard to the Trade Commission-of's office in China.
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