LABOUR NOT BOUND
TO MAINTAIN PREFERENCE
FOOD TAXES TO QO
IF PARTY COMES TO POWER.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, 29th April.
In the House of Commons, Mr. A. J. Barnes said the Labour Party did not recognise itself as bound to the Ministry's ten years' stabilisation of Imperial preference. The party would abolish all food taxes. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Listor (president of the Board of Trade), replying, said the exports to the Empire were 37 per cent, of the total oxports in. 1923,' and now were 39 per cent. Large reproductive orders followed the efforts of the trade commissioners. He hoped the quostion of migration would be exhaustively discussed at the Imperial Conference. Dealing with Commander Kenworthy's advocacy of speeding up the inauguration of Empire air routes, Sir Philip said it required a great deal of experimenting, also tho question was of considerable financial uncertainty. The motion was formally negatived^
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 1 May 1926, Page 7
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153LABOUR NOT BOUND Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 1 May 1926, Page 7
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