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“TAX ON FOOD.”
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, Sept 20.
Bertram Lee, chairman, addressing the shareholders of the Calico Printers’ Association, said that the cotton industry was now in a most serious condition. It had nothing to gain from any system of tariffs, and it would be commercial madness for Britain to start a tariff campaign against foreign countries, in order to give preference to the Dominions, which had expressly determined to maintain the tariffs against us. The Dominions’ demand for preference resolved itself into a proposal that Britain should submit to a tax on imported foodstuffs, in order that the Dominion producers may obtain higher prices.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1923, Page 5
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110EMPIRE PREFERENCE Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1923, Page 5
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