INTERNATIONAL TARIFFS.
BRITISH DELEGATES’ SUGGESTION. ' COMMITTEE GREATLY DIVIDED. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GENEVA, May IS. Very divided opinion is existing in the committee appointed to consider the tariff problem. The British delegates are pressing for reductions on particularly selected 1 groups of coin modi ties and insisting that within each group raw, semi-finished and finished products he included,. the list to include woollen worsteds, iron and st'G'd. The French delegate, in opposing this, said a rigid principle courted failure. Mr. MeDougnl (Australia) supported this point of view, pointing out that there were non-European conntries to consider and the remaining committee. Any action the League took in the economic sphere affected the prestige of the League one way or another.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 5
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