FISCAL DEBATE IN THE LORDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 22 May 1908, Page 5

FISCAL DEBATE IN THE LORDS.

LONDON, May 21. In the Jlous« of Lords, the Duke of Marlborough initiated the fiscal debate*. Lord Cromer emphasised what he described as the "absurd, intolerable and minute classification of the Australian tariff/ He complained that there was a prospect of only slight changes in colonial protective- tariffs'. He urged the Motherland to leave well alone. Lord Milner declared the question was whether "we intended to he tha principal sellers tc the colonies, or :o have two more treaties like tha Franco-Canadian made, aod our position on the Canadian, marker, be thus destroyed." - ,