ANGRY HATMAKERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 129, 13 March 1935, Page 6

ANGRY HATMAKERS.

THE AUSTRALIAN TARIFF. OTTAWA OBLIGATIONS. LONDON, February 27. The hat makers of Lancashire and Cheshire are urging that the industry should vigorously protest to Mr Lyons against the prohibitive Australian tariff. It is stated that exports to Australia have progressively decreased under the 100 to 350 per cent tariff, but British manufacturers are continuing to use Australian wool and rabbit fur as before, under the provisions of the Ottawa preferences. The "Manchester Dispatch" says that the industry is so incensed at the "brutal tariffs" that it is deliberately seeking raw materials elsewhere. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce carried a resolution in the British Chambers of Commerce regretting that Australia and Canada were not implementing the Ottawa Agreement, particularly in connection with reductions of tariffs before the respective Tariff Boards. The opinion was expressed that the Commonwealth Government should be acquainted with British industrialists' dissatisfaction at their interpretation of their Ottawa obligations.