PREFERENCE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 July 1924, Page 7

PREFERENCE

CHERISHED IDEALS. ! TOO GREAT A SACRIFICE. M, CABLE—PRfigs ASSOCIATIONt-COPYRIGHT. y„ r , ADELAIDE, June 30. _,M. r E- G. Theodore (Premier of Queensland), m an interview, said he was .sure the ‘majority of the people of kingdom considered the adoption of Dominion’ preference ina complete sacrifice of their cherished . ideals without sufficiently compensating advantages. He supposdi. the Dominions must accept the ineyßable, for it would be unwise for the. Dominions to attempt to convert the,-;Briti.sh people to a doctrine repugnant to them. .' It, .appeared,; therefore, that the Dorn inipns must abandon their hopes of complete reciprocal trade preference, andr accommodate themselves to the necessity .of competing with the world’s markets without receiving /favoured treatment in any particular one. Apart frora.certain manufacturers , the. people of..l?ngand placed little', importance on the rireference Australia, gav.e to ,certain goods. '■ / ;/ .

AUSTRALIAN POLICY. / A REASONABLE VIEW, , ”, ,\J; . ; ' ■■ I 11. •' ’ f SYDNEY, June 30. Mr. Prattfen, Minister for Trade and Custonis, ispeakirig on preference, said that-'in view of the British Government having! itself -scrapped its own Industries Preservation, Act,. it was open. todoubt whether Australia should continue, her, policy to the same extent as heretofore. The narrow, majority by which .the preference proposal was defeated, 1 .however, . showed that' the minority, represe nts:an immense body of ppbhc -opinion in the Motherland in .favour of /accepting the principle of preference to the Dominions. IT© proposes to review > the jxisition whereby goods front tlio, Motherland, containing merely twenty-five per. pent, of British miatenat; W ,,wo r kmanGlup receive the full . preference. He believes that if action is-taken in this direction-it will help, to some-extent; to-relieve unemployment in the Homeland. The present system was unfair to our own manufacturers , who w-cre partly deprived of .the,protection against foreign goods provided by their own Parliament through the tariff.—Aus.-N Z Cable Assnr

Receiyed July 1, 9.5 ,a.m. vr, ; T ' LONDON, June 30. Viscount Long thinks that immense be drawn by the champions of Empire preference from the JLiO'rds debate, on preference. In aletter he .etates: ‘‘We have only to kdep on working steadily- Certain victory -a waits; us.’’—Times.