RECIPROCITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 19 January 1912, Page 5

RECIPROCITY.

THU COMMONWEALTH, CANADA, AND NEW ZEALAND.

SCOPE .OF PREFERENTIAL DUTIES

TO BE EXTENDED

Bt CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—fIOPYRIGHT.

MELBOURNE, Jan. 18

The Federal Government is prepared to give Canada and New Zealand the benefit of the British preferential duties tariff, provided Australian goods are allowed to enter those countries at British rates. ,

A Bill will be introduced next session to provide that the preference shall apply to Canadian goods, but several items will probably be excepted.

Mr Tudor decJared that if they had the reciprocity treaty there would have l)een no difficulty about subsidising mail steamers, but it was not advisable to grant a subsidy to steamers calling at New Zealand, unless they had reciprocity. During 1910 Australia exported £80,000 worth of goods to Canada. Had the preferential rate been in existence she would have saved £7727.

Canadian exports .to Australia . for the same period were £110.294. Preference would have saved £3400.