PREFERENCE.
THE AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDE." ;By Telegraph—Press Assoclation-CopyriEht.. • fllec. January 21, ;1.5 a.m.) ''■ , . ' London, January 20. '. The romarka of Air. .Will Crooks (tho defeated ' Labour' candidate: for .Woolwich), concerning Anstralian : ;preference: vl arose 'oat' of 'an' -interview; the "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal). '
"... [The:foll6wing;-'cablegram» was received from Melbourne.', on 'Wednesday;—" Sir Robert Best,. Federal Minister :of , Cus-', toms, in a speech at Ballarat, repudiated the cabled- statement , attribsted .to ~ our recent'..visitor,, Mr.; Wifl-. Crooks,: the defeated Miour 'candidate,..for Woolwich (to the effect that' the people, of New South Wales complained bitterly . .of the, 5 per: cent.'-tariff j! under which' the.price of 'commodities had - been i raised: 15 per ( cent;; also,, that : all;wlonials repudiated; with scorn .and .dorision any suggestion to '. give them preference);",. Sir. Robert Best: declared that, no sentiment was more popular throughout ' Australia than Imperial: preference;-'. -.Last-.'year '.:it had meant ,a-voluntary gift'.'of; <6828,000 ;: in duties: to.. British.: merohants."']'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 721, 21 January 1910, Page 5
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