EMPIRE PREFERENCE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2219, 28 May 1929, Page 7

EMPIRE PREFERENCE

ISSUE AT ELECTIONS

DRAGGING IN DOMINIONS

(Avist. and N.Z. Cable) London, May 20. Air Leopold Amory. in a J speech at Brierly Jlill. said that by giving preferences and encouraging Empire trade Iho Government liaji. show that it understood life Dominions’ viewpoint and was prepared, (o cd-opor-ato with (hem. Was it not better to allow th e Government to continue this good work (ban to call in people like Snowden who wished to repudiate preferences, tear them up and throw them in 1 lie faces of Britain’s best customers? LIVELY" PASSAGED Though Mr Churchill describes (his as the dullest of election campaigns, Lord Birkenhead. Mr Amory and Sir W. Joyiison-HickS have had lively passages with interrupters. Lord Birkenhead threatened personally to throw an interrupter down stairs. Replying to a jeer about his £SOOO pension, lie said; "Jl: I give up £30,000 a year to accept office, should not; J he entitled to a pension? As fur as is known lam tip. only person in the Empire proposing to give up a pension within three months.'’