REPLY TO MINISTER
EMPIRE FREE TRADE MR.; DOIDGE'S ADVOCACY (By .Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTOEUA, This Day. An emphatic denial to a statement made by the Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister of Education, during a political address at .Invercargill on Thursday concerning Free Trade, was given by Mr, F. W. Doidge, Independent candidate for the Rotorua seat at the General Election. • "Mr. Smith has in recent speeches twice declared that the fiscal policy I advocate, if carried into effect, would spell the end of every secondary industry in New Zealand," stated Mi\ Doidge. "The policy I advocate would do nothing of the kind, and I would like to know whether cupidity or stupidity is ■yvhat prompts the Minister to make this statement. A Customs union within the Empire is what I plead for! Always I have been at the greatest pains, to explain just what that policy means—a tariff war against the foreigner and; the greatest possible measure of free trade in the Empire, bearing in mind that in the Dominions are certain well-established secondary industries which must necessarily be" sheltered. The Press throughout New Zealand has given my utterances on this subject the widest publicity. There can be no excuse for the Minister's lack of understanding."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 42, 17 August 1935, Page 11
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