THE FISCAL QUESTION.
; - • , _ r ; -:C 'if"'/ » **y*' CONFERENCE OF CONSERVE ' TIVEB. : IMPORTANT RESOLUTION* \ CARRIED. t ; v By Te!«jraj>'b.—Free# #.«ecolatton.—Copyright • London,• October 29. Some fourteen hunched delegates have attended a confersnce of tho National' Onion Conservative Con* shtutional Associations at Southampton. ' , •' With three dissentient voices Mr. Chaplin's resolution, deck,ring that; ' the time has arrived for revision of the fiscal policy and supporting 'Mr. Balfour's claim for power to deal with the evils of unfair competition and the proposed colonial conference was carried. An amendment) moved by th& Free-foodera to restrict the resolution to Mr. Balfour's fiscal policy as unfolded at Edinburgh found only, thirteen supporters. . • .v Mr. Chaplin admitted that ho favoured a more advanced view, but said it was desirable to promote unity in the party. The resolution satisfied his section, and the conference was evidently averse to a fiscal discussion.
Mr. Balfour, who was present, - merely remarked that if his writings and speeches were read with a deter-' initiation not to, read into them -what; * was not. there, they would not foe' found obscure, difficult, or inconsistent. • • . * ; : ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12699, 31 October 1904, Page 5
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