TRADE PREFERENCE
NEED FOR EFFECTIVE IMPERIAL SYSTEM
AND SCRAPPING OF OLD SHIBBOLETHS - '
Br telegraph—Peess association. —Copyright. (Rec. August 21. 10.40 p.m.) -. London, August 21.
Mr. A. H. Ashbolt, Tasmanian Agent-General, interviewed by the ‘Morning Post,” said that, speaking primarily as a business man and not as Agent-General, he would stress the need for an effective system of Imperial preference, operating throughout the Empire in all trade relations. England must realise that she could not live on the past. The times had changed. It was pare pigheadedness to persist in the continuance of a onesided free-trade policy. Britain’s population to-day was three milht** greater than it would have been if the normal pre-war rate of emigration had been maintained. Britain was buying large quantities of cotton and foodstuffs from America and Denmark which the Empire could produce. It should not be impossible to transfer a portion of this trade to the Dominions. But it would require the scrapping of old shibboleths and a practical extension of preference. This would have the double effect of providing work for Britain’s unemployed as food producers in the Dominions, and at the same time turn them into purchasers of British manufactures.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 288, 22 August 1923, Page 7
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199TRADE PREFERENCE Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 288, 22 August 1923, Page 7
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