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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 June 1924, Page 9

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INTERESTS OU CONSUMERS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received June 19, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, June 18. Colonel Pilkington, speaking as one who had lived in Australia for 27 years, denied that the increase of British exports to AustiffTia was due to preference. A vital objection to preference was that the consumer in Britain would be taxed in order to provide a cash subsidy for Dominion producers. Hie Australian market did not dominate the mice of any article manufactured in Britain, and consequently the British manufacturer did not get a better price because of Australian preference. As a beginning, tariffs might be applied to a few industries, blit they would inevitably be extended until the burden would be overgreat for the consumers to bear, and would be disastrous for all parts of the Empire. Industries which grew up under the tariffs would become derelict when the tariffs are discarded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DECISIVE DIVISION. SY GABLI —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received June 19, 12.5 pirn. * LONDON, June 18. The division on first preference resolution will probably be decisive if it is defeated, which is anticipated, as the Opposition will not trouble to divide the House on the remaining resolutions, but if it is carried they will divide on the others at least until defeated on one.—Reuter.