ISLAND NEWS.
PREFERENCE WITH THE COMMONWEALTH. (Per United Press, Association.) AUCKLAND, August 17. In the. Fiji Time,? of July 24 the following, sighed by tho Governor (Sir Everard Im Thurm), appears on the 6ubjeet of preference with Australia:—" I think it well to 6tato for general information that negotiations between the Commonwealth Government and that of Fiji on the subject of the Australian duty on bananas arc proceeding, but that, as far as I am awaro, no definite result has been attained. Certainly tho suggestion that there has been, ov can be, any question of 'preference' as between the Commonwealth and Fiji is entirely unfounded, but if, as the result of a mutual agreement between the two Governments, they both decide to modify their duties on certain foodstuffs in the general interests, and without preference to any particular place, a wide-reaching benefit, it is believed, will be attained."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13985, 19 August 1907, Page 6
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148ISLAND NEWS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13985, 19 August 1907, Page 6
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