TO AID PROSPERITY.
SAFEGUARDING DUTIES ADVOCATED. INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN BY f!A MLB —PRESS* ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, March 21. Mr S. It. Streatfield, in the House of Commons, moved in favour of an e>: tension of safeguarding duties as the only practical means of accelerating prosperity. Mr R. V. K. Applin, in seconding the motion, cited the evidence of foreign competition. He convulsed the House by pointing out that he had already received samples of mirrors for vaniiy hags inscribed: “1 gave you a vote; you vote for me.” He wins invited to have hi,s portrait attached to the back of circular mirrors by the lady constitutents. The mirrors, said Mr Sreatfield, wore offered to him at l'7is 6d a gross for British and IQs 6d a gross for foreign. As the result of safeguarding employment was provided or an additional 20,000 persons. If other industries were safeguarded half a million unemployed would find work. Mr Philip Snowden urged that the policy of safeguarding Was really protection. and meant robbing the public for the benefit of a few. The debate-was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 March 1928, Page 5
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180TO AID PROSPERITY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 March 1928, Page 5
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