BRITAIN AND TARIFFS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 8

BRITAIN AND TARIFFS.

POSITION OF NEW ZEALAND.

--:; (By Telegraph.—QwnVCorrespondent.) ; . • : , =-' y .'WELLINGTON, Wednesday.' "Since- I. was. last in./ England, yfive ,: l years there has ibeen a wonderful v advance in the J in,most directions for isome'sort of Empire tariff,", eaid Mr. W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy . Pr.oduce Board, on his. arrival to-day. "New Zealand,. for its own protection, /* -j : mußtxealise that.Great Britain has.the. i■■' ■'■' ■■ only vopen. door in the world for. its primary products, .whije many of the large 'countries'.*'exporting, their.; .manu-factures-to tihe. Dominion Jhave ia tariff fence against (the 'importation of our '.' meat,-butter-and .cheese. .The only pros-. a swe have of getting, any of our pro- -' ducts: into the .countries' in question ifi, ; % retaliatory /tariffs." ,; - ' v ,'. i Mr. lorns referred to the question or, ibulk' purchase, VhichJ"has .already been soma prominence in-New Zealand, by reason of its appearing on the .agenda ' paper of the- forthcoming Imperial Conr-. '. f erence, and prayeatas' his opinion that it would be.most unlikely that anything would come of' the - . --.. -,' ; ;