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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1312, 25 January 1928, Page 7

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NOT AS GOOD AS IT LOOIvS

A -MANCHESTER CRITICISM

(Aust. and N.Z. Cable)

London, January ‘23

It is national rather than international opinion which has to make itself felt regarding inter-Empire trade, says the report of the Manchefscr Chamber of Commerce.

There thus appears to bo little true reciprocity in the policies of some of the Dominions.

Australia, for example, is determined to foster its own industries. Although it continues to give tariff preference to British goods, it is found with increasingly ominous frc. (jueiiey that even Use prefential rate is too high, to permit trade flowing.