HOMELAND TARIFF

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1925, Page 5

HOMELAND TARIFF

DUTY ON LACE

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, June 12

In the House <|f Commons the Government moved a motion imposing 33 and 1-3 per cent ad valorem tax on imported lace. The Opposition tabled a string of amendments, all of which were defeated, and the motion was carried.

AUSTRAL-CAN AD lAN TREATY.

OTTAWA, June 12.

Attempts by Members of both the Conservative and Progressive. Parties in the H ouse 9* Commons to-day to secure information relative to the Australian tariff treaty, resulted in little, except a statement by Mr Robb that' certain trade interests, both in Australia- and America, were doing their best to create divisions and prevent the treaty being consummated. Mr Caldwell,' a Progressive, said the New Brunswick business interests' complained that their business was dragging, due to uncertainly ’over the treaty, the consummation o£ which, he sain, would be very advantageous to the fish canners, for example. He urged the Government to take power to complete the treaty as soon as the negotiations were finished, even if the House were not assembled.

Mr Mbighan said that, apparently, everyone in the United Status, Aust i.ilia, "and elsewhere, knew, and was permitted to say, what they liked, about the treaty, but in the Parliament of Canada Members were not. even allowed to know what Mr Robb’s attitude was towards the 75 per cent, clause. He urged Mr Robb to say what was holding tire treaty up . ■ After Air Robb’s statement as above, Mr Caldwell repudiated the suggestion that the members of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association or the Progressives were opposing the treaty. How could they, when they did not know what was in it?