TARIFF REFORM.
POLICY OF THE UNIONISTS.
DUTY ON FOODSTUFFS.
NOT MORE THAN FIVE PER
CENT.
By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright.
(Received December 33, 9.49 ji.tn.!
London, December 13. In a speeth at Glasgow last night Mr. Austen Chamberlain dealt with the. question of tariff reform.
The Unionists, he said, propo'sed that the duties on manufactured articles should average 10 per cent., and that on foreign wheat should be 23 per quarter, whilst those on other foodstuffs should not exceed five per cent., with an abatement or exemption in favour of the British colonies.
The food duties, he said, would not be increased without goin.-* to the people for a fresh mandate.
Mr. Chamberlain said that during the past nine months British trade had increased by £54,000,000, as
compared with 1902, but the trade of the United States had increased by £138,000,000, and that of Germany by £180,000,000.
It was true, he said, tlhat unemployment had been lessened, out many artisans had emigrated to countries where work was plentiful.
The wages in Britain were not keeping pace with the cost of living.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 7
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