IMPERIAL PREFERENCE QUESTIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 1 August 1918, Page 7

IMPERIAL PREFERENCE QUESTIONS.

(Received Aug. 1, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. The Morning Post says that Mr Long's statements that the Government will certainly not tax foodstuffs, which are the. principal productions of the Dominions, hits us in the eye like the banged, barred and bolted door of Mr Churchill. Taxation of tropical pro--ducts, including sugar and tea, will help Natal, Queensland, India, the West Indies and Mauritius, but what will Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the Australian States get in return for their preference? Our farmers will lie equally disappointed.—Aus.-N.Z. ■Cable Association.