DEBATE ON THE BUDGET
iTHE DEAD HAND OF COBDEN"
DOMINION AND FOREIGN TRADE COMPARED.
(OXIIED PRESS ASSOCIATIOH.—COPYRIGHT.)
(SYDNEY SDH CABLE.) (Received 2nd May, 9.30 a.m.)
LONDON, Ist May
Sir K. S. Home, in the Budget debate, when speaking about preferences, said it had been hoped that as a result cf the war a new and enlarged view of the Empire would be taken, but the dead hand of Cobden apparently gripped some of the members of the House. He appealed to the Government to realise what Britain owed to the Empire in the way of trade. Out of £558,000,000 of manufactured goods exported in 1922, countries within the Empire took £251,000,----000, or 44.2 per cent. Sparsely populated countries like Australia bought more British goods than the 110,000,000 people in the United States, the 65,000,000 in Germany, and the 40,000,000 in Trance. Was that not a market -worth considering T .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1924, Page 7
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149DEBATE ON THE BUDGET Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1924, Page 7
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