TARIFFS INSTEAD OF “QUOTA MUDDLE”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 7

TARIFFS INSTEAD OF “QUOTA MUDDLE”

Mr. Lloyd George’s View ORGANISING BRITISH AGRICULTURE London, April /I. .Mr. Lloyd George, in an article in the “Farmers’ ’Weekly,” says that he believes that if British agriculture is properly organised and concentrates on the production of goods for which it is specially fitted, it could hold its own at least as well as tlie Danish farmers. He says that he is not an enthusiastic protectionist, but while Britain’s policy is protection it should employ straightforward tariffs rather than muddle with quotas. The Dominions should receive worthwhile preference according to their treatment of Britain. Tlie dumping of produce should be stopped, whether Britain is protectionist or free trade.

PEARLING DISASTER 140 Men Dead in Broome Cyclone Perth, April 12. It is now generally accepted at Broome that twenty-one luggers are lost and 140 men ffead as a result Of the recent cyclone. On March 26 a cyclone struck the pearling fleet operating near Broome and wrecked many of the luggers on the Lapcede Islands. Most of the men killed were Asiatics.