RECIPROCAL TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 11

RECIPROCAL TRADE.

MELBOURNE,-Oct. 4. it The Minister of Customs moved that 1 the following additional items in the J reciprocal trade agreement with New 1 Zealand be ratified: Preserved meats ] in tins, 2d; sheets and roofing slates, i cement and asbestos, ad valorem 10 per i cent.; dairying machines and imple- < ments, free; corn, millet, brooms, ad 3 valorem 30 per cent. The Minister ex- i plained that there had Been a split on < two items. Australia desired free entry '•■ into New Zealand for dried fruits, par- < - ticularly currants and raisins, while ] New Zqaland would agree only on con- < dition that New Zealand was allowed, free entry for oats. He was not pre- | pared to surrender the Australian oat i growers to competition, even if a dried fruit market should be lost as a result. ' The resolution, with the accompanying '. Bill, passed all stages. i"