THE DEAR LOAF
DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT.
COLONIAL PREFERENCE ADVOCATED.
Press Assocmtion-By Telegrtph-CopyTigut.
LONDON, March 5. , In the House of Commons Sir J. F. Leese moved that as the high price of bread was duo to .natural causes, the levying of an import duty on wheat would aggravate tlie Buffering caused by dear bread. i
Mr E. A. Golding moved an amendment declaring that the high price of l>read was due to natural causeG and the neglect of British resources, and expreesfag an opinion in fwour of a rearrangement of tho duties on food products, with a view to encouraging agriculture at Homo and giving preference to the colonies by stimulating the productive power of the Empire. He censured the Government for refusing to stimulate the production of .■wheat within tho-Empire by granting the colonies preference.
Mr Lloyd-George, who replied for the Government, said tliat Germany was supplying a sufficient -warning against the adoption qf the amendment. There lis duty was paid on all imported wheat, and 4he same duty was paid upon all German home-grown wheat.
Mi- Golding's amendment was rejected iy 293 to 90. ,
The debate was then adjourned,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 10
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190THE DEAR LOAF Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 10
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