SAFEGUARDING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 268, 12 November 1928, Page 7

SAFEGUARDING.

Some Problems Of Britain's New Policy. MAY BE TAX ON POOD? (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 11. The debate on the safeguarding of industry, which will be raised in the House of Commons on Wednesday, is awaited with keen interest. The position regarding the proposed extension of safeguarding was recently made clear in a letter from the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons on Friday evening, said that the statement had the unanimous approval of Cabinet.

According to that letter there would be no general system of protection, but an industry which applied for safeguarding would not be prevented from making its case before an authoritative and competent tribunal. Mr. Baldwin added that evidently it would be necessary for all parties, including those in agriculture, who. were affected by any application for safeguarding to have a locus standi before the tribunal.

This reference to agriculture has occasioned some comment, in view of the Government's pledge against food taxes. But it is clear that the intention is to enable the agricultural interests to oppose, before the tribunal, any application for safeguarding duties by another industry, which, in the view of agriculturists, might adversely affect their inter/its.