FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 October 1922, Page 5

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

PRICE OF SUGAR RECIPROCAL 'I A RIFE WITH NEW ZEALAND (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE. This Day. The SugnV Bill has passed all its stages in the Senate. In the House, the Minister of Customs a pounced that sugar would he i educed to fivepenee from Ist November.

The joint. committee on public ac counts’ interim report sta 1 * Unit £2b u ton is snilieient price far raw .sugar, which could hr retailed at JwL’ a tan or per !b. balance sheets lor the period of sugar control to 19t)i .May. J 922, show a nett loss of £502,000. The Minister of Customs moved (he fallowing additional items in the recip local trade agreement with New Zealand be ratified :—Preserved meats in tins 2d; shots and roofing slates. tement. asbestos, ad valorem, 10 per cent ; dairying machines, implements, tree; torn millet brooms, ad valorem. 50 per cent. , ’ The Minister explained there mu! bun a split, on two items. Australia desired free entry into New Zealand !pr dried fruits, particularly cti rials : m: ran imp while' New Zealand would agree only on condition that New Zealand was allowed 1 tree entry for oats He was not prepared to surrender the Australian oat growers to the competition, even it me, dried fruit market should by lost, as a

remit. Then-solution with lii ■ acvoinpaiiMog liill passed all its stages. The House authorised the pmvlms.' Mrs Rowan’s paintings.