NEW ZEALAND’S OFFER
FREE EXCHANGE OF TRADE ATTITUDE OF LIBERALS LONDON, 21st April. “The Liberals do not intend to allow matters to rest with the Government's refusal of New Zealand's offer of a free exchange of trade," said_ Sir Herbert Samuel at Darwen. “When the offer was made in October it caused much perturbation with this great Imperial Government, which has always said that it regarded the Empire as one unit, that we must think imperially, anil look to the Empire for markets. The Government eventually rejected the_ offer because it was inconsistent with Mr Elliot’s slapdash methods which were causing much disturbance in British agriculture.” Sir Herbert Samuel added that the Liberals would watch developments io this New Zealand situation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 April 1934, Page 4
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121NEW ZEALAND’S OFFER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 April 1934, Page 4
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