THE FEDERAL TARIFF.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney. Oct. 14. The Herald says that the opinion is almost universally expressed amongst commercial men that the Federal tarift means ruin to the New Zealand export trade in produce to Australia. It continues : -Had New Zealand seen m to enter the Federation, instead of imagining a South Seas Federation of her own. until Mr Chamberlain put an end to that Alnaschar's Day dream, all the Commonwealth ports would have been open to her products. New Zeaiand would have shown a more neighborly spirit had her public men helped us with the discussion of our ; financial problem. It is clear enough that j some of the duties arc so high that the i Federal Government did nut impose them j for revenue purposes. New Zealand critic- j are right in describing these duties as j non-revenue raising, but frankly pro- | tcctivc
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 237, 15 October 1901, Page 3
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