AUSTRALIAN TARIFF
COMMENDED BY MR AMERY. ADVANCE FOR PREFERENCE. Pross Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 15. -V defence of the new Australian tariff was advanced by Mr L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions,'at a meeting of the City of London Debating Club. . . Mr Amery admitted that certain industries would suffer, but he said that, taking the tariff as a whole, the number of items from British sources placed on the free list and the number of articles from foreign sources that had been made subject to duty' had been increased from 275 to 311. * ~ , ~ The tariff, Mr Amery added, would give a deliberate- help to industries which seemed willing to help themselves. The net effect was to increase by something like half a million pounds annually the value of the preference given by Australia to Britain.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19616, 21 October 1925, Page 7
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