AFRICAN TARIFF
PREFERENCE PROPOSALS. BITTER DEBATE. MR. SMFTPS’ DECLARATION. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT CAPETOWN, April 27. A bitter debate is proceeding in the Assembly on the Government’s Budget. General J. G. Sniutis declared: “\ve will not acquiesce in any policy which places the Empire behind other countries. When our day comes we will reverse the Government's policy and see Britain treated as .she should be. He moved that the .estimate be referred back with instructions to .submit amended tariff proposals, recognising the principle that Britain should enjoy preference above foreigners. Mr. Oreswell, in reply, argued that General Smuts was .advocating the policy of the sixteenth .century that the Dominions .should he run for the economic profit of Britain, which lost her her American, colonies.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 April 1925, Page 5
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124AFRICAN TARIFF Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 April 1925, Page 5
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