PREFERENTIAL TRADE.
~o> AN UNEXPECTED RESULT. LONDON, June 7. I Sir J. Eolleston, the Conservative mcmi ber for Leicester, in a letter to The Times, states that New Zealand's Preference Act has been the means of leviving Leicester's old export trade in boots and shoes. June 8. At the Australasian Chamber of Commerce meeting, I\[r Doxat presiding, Senator Best, of Victoria, read a paper on intra-Imperial trade. He said a zollverein or some modification ought to be the ultimate ideal of the British Empire. He advised British exporters to show greater energy and enterprise to meet the competition of Germans and Americans. The chief operating cause of •Britain's loss of Australian trade was the fiscal system. Mr Bockburn deprecated the Opposition trying to dictate what subjects the Colonial Conference should discuss. Mr Best said he would be surprised if representatives were called to a conference to find an important subject of discussion debarred.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2674, 14 June 1905, Page 19
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PREFERENTIAL TRADE.
Otago Witness, Issue 2674, 14 June 1905, Page 19
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