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MB. SCULLIN AND DEPUTATION
(Received 12th November, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 11th-November. That Australian wool was treated as foreign in assessing-the proportion of British material entitling British woollen goods to preference was a bitter complaint of a manufacturer at a deputation to Mr. Scullin, who replied that Australia was so anxious to help Britain that she penalised her own products. This was one of several anomalies which he proposed to remove. Mr. Scullin emphasised that the -woollen industry was natural to Australia, which .could not continue sending wool 12,000 miles and importing goods made from it. The number of 250 manufacturers and representa-.; tives of British trade associations were introduced by Sir Arthur Balfour and Sir Arthur Duckham, and gave Mr. Seullin a good reception. Mr. Scullin urged that industrialists in Australia and Britain should consult and discuss specific lines to be reserved for the manufacture of either country. He did not claim that the Australian tariff was perfect. • A wool manufacturer interjected: "Australia is building up non-economic industries." "In that case, they are bound to fail, and you will enter again,'' said Mr. Scullin, who claimed that preferential tariffs were the-principal, though not the only method of promoting interImperial trade. Some Australian industries did not produce all the varieties of goods required, and he suggested that in such cases certain markets or a portion of markets be allocated to manufacturers in different parts of the Empire. Sir Arthur Balfour said: "It seems to us there is room for a little more help and preference. We send money to Australia for goods and Australia sends this money to the United States. If Mr. Scullin can make any preference gesture, it will make it easier for the Commonwealth to borrow a little more money from Britain. The moment is extremely opportune. Wo can show our faith in Australia by not withdrawing money too quickly. I proclaim my faith in Australia, and will back it to the limit."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 12
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 12
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