VALUE OF TARIFF POLICY
PROVED FOR BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, September 24. “If at the Imperial Conference Britain’s representatives stood firm for the old free trade policy, it might result, in the loosening of the bonds of Empire;” said Sir Geo. Elliot, speaking at a shareholders’ annua’ meeting to-day. ' He said that as the resultof preferential tariff, 80 per cent., of ;New Zealand’s imports came from -.•Britain,' hut for. preference, .it is probable- Britain would lose 50 per cent..of' that business. ,New Zealand supplied' about forty million pounds worth of goods to Britain, but this had to be sold with preference, in .competition with the goods of foreign countries, whose economic standards were much lower. If Britain granted preference to Empire foodstuffs,, the extra cost to Britain would be very small, hut the benefit to the overseas Empire 'won!d be of the utmost iinp6,rta,nce..;„ .......
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1930, Page 6
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