PREFERENTIAL TARIFF.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16116, 3 May 1923, Page 6

PREFERENTIAL TARIFF.

Elec. Tel CopyriKhl-United Press Assn., (Australian and N.Z cahle AS3ociauou.i

(Received May 3, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 2,

Lord Could could not understand any serious hostility being offered to the policy of Imperial preference. If the Empire chose it could supply the whole of its own requirements. No one desired to see the British wage-earner driven from the country, but there was a surplus which the JJominions could absorb. The Duke of Devonshire said when occasion arose the Government hoped to extend the principle of Imperial preference; it also hoped, in conjunction with the Dominions at, the Conference in October, to work out methods for still further powers for the extension of the State-aided migration. This was not a measure of despair or temporary expedient for grappling with unemployment, but wms a means of developing the Empire. The Duke of Devonshire said a valuable and useful migration scheme had already been -worked out, which it was hoped would be the precurser of other wider ones.

Lord Beauchamp said there would be united Liberal opposition to Imperial preference, if it entailed increased food costs in Britain.

Lord Birkenhead said there was no prospect of trade revival in Europe in the next five years. Many men accepted doles in Britain with bitterness. With organisation and adjustment it should be possible to overcome English men's and women's impulse against leaving the country. It should not be beyond the Government's power to draft Britain's unemployed to the Dominions. Man did not live fey sentiment; and tho Empire could not*be kept together by mutual eulogv and adoration. The Dominions had sacrificed much in giving us preference, and we must le prepared to do something for them. At this stage the House rose.