MAIN ADVANTAGE
EMPIRE RECIPROCITY
POWER FOR PREFERENCE
LONDON, ,16th February.
In the House of Commons, Major G. C. Tryon, Minister of Pensions, replying to a protest from a section of the Press against tho exclusion of; newsprint from the tariff list, said that three large newspaper groups owned about three-fourths of the total newsprint used in the country, with resources available to them, in Canada and Newfoundland.
The question ■ affected between 6000 and 7000' newspapers and periodicals, the great mass of which wore not so favourably placed. Representations had been made on'their behalf.
He added that the main advantage of the Bill was the enormous power it gave to reciprocate towards the Dominions, with whom the augmented trade would result in a great benefit to tlie shipping industry. ' . ■. . The Bill would help enormously the policy of Imperial preference, and the wide range of duties would provide large opportunities for the granting of preferences to the Dominions.
The Efeusc adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1932, Page 7
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