FISCAL REFORM.
MELBOURNE, August 20. Mr Chamberlain, writing to a friend in Victoria, says he has no doubt that he will ultimately complete a commercial unicn in the shape of a Zollyerein. This would bo the best thing both for the colonies and Britain, but it was neoessary to prooeed gradually. He would be perfectly satisfied, in the first instance, with such a preferential arrangement as the colonies would be likely to accept. Mr Chamberlain adds: “We can assist you to fill up the waste lands, and while not in any way interfering with your progress in manufacture, we shall always find opportunities for the change, each part of the Empire producing for the rest the materials for unmanufactured goods that it is best fitted to supply.” He confidence of the ultimate adoption of his preferential proposals, but whether he will live to see it or not is, he says, uncertain.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 22
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151FISCAL REFORM. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 22
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