EMPIRE PREFERENCE.
WHAT REJECTION OF PROPOSALS .MEANS.
DOMINIONS- WILL NEGOTIATE WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
LONDON. Mav 6
The Empire Producers’ Organisation passed a resolution that it- views with apprehension the Government’s failure to ratify the Economic Conference resolutions, and regards with dismay the Government’s proposals to ieduce duties on certain products receiving preferences, with stabilising pi efe rentes at pre-Budget money value, thereby cheeking enterprise in Empire development The organisation points out that tho Governnent’s action will force the Dominions in search of markets to enter long-term commercial treaties with, fueign countries, regardless of Britain’s interests, which action the Dominions hat e long striven to avoid in an endeavour to institute a cornice n Empire economic policy, it also emphasises that the Government’s action will make difficult the task of finding sett-’ement opportunities for Britain’s surplus population.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9799, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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