DUTY ON WOOLLENS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 12

DUTY ON WOOLLENS

A YORKSHIRE PROTEST Australian Press Association. (Received 9th April, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 7th April. Bradford textile men are expressing dissatisfaction with the way alterations in the Australian tariff as regards woollen« manufactures have been pushed through Parliament. A writer in the "Yorkshire Post" says: "Determined efforts are being made, and much money is being spent to encourage trading' within the Empire, and the immense sums winch Australians draw every year from us in payment for wool alone are regarded as sufficient reason why some official notification should have been given us of the intention to alter the duty on certain worsted piece goods to our detriment. Contrast is inevitably made with the consideration given by Canadians, who do not draw from this district nearly as much money as Australians. The cause of Empire trading is not likely to be promoted by what the Australians have done. That Australians desire to develop theiv own domestic wool textile industry is appreciated in this district, but in the case of such wool textiles as they cannot make themselves ami are obliged to import, they might have increased the measure of preference given to goods made in this country. That woul'l have been more in harmony with schemes for developing trade within the Empire."