PREFERENTIAL TRADE.
.GERMAN ;' CONSUL'S PROTEST. (Per Press. Association.)- '■" ,'•" CHRISTCHURCH, this day. At- the- quarterly^ meeting of the Cunterbufy' ' Chariiber of Commerce Mr JoOstcn (German Consul) *'• criticised the pjßOpo^al) to pay the cost of .a. Prcadndught> by' surcharge on European and colonial importations. He "felt the motion'was. directed' against Germany; The United' States, exported, largely to New Zealand,: and was -left out of it. .It was directed against . Germany.' It also meant /penalising an ally, France.'. He opposed "Germany being penalised, as there" appeared an excellent opportunity of . : Qer«»an ; markets being thrown open to New-Zealand -frozon. meat. He hoped the Government would ignore the resolution, as it deserved, to he ignored. The rlYhirman said' be did .not. know that the resolution was directed specially ogainst (Germany, but wus'cai-iying out the prin- . ipTe 'of preference to the Mother Countrv,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11863, 29 May 1909, Page 5
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137PREFERENTIAL TRADE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11863, 29 May 1909, Page 5
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