CUSTOMS AGREEMENT
SOUTH AFRICA AND RHODESIA (Received Feb. S, 2 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Fell. 7. The Minister of Finance detailed the terms of the agreement with Northern ami Southern Rhodesia. These were principally’ concessions by the Union on Rhodesian-grown tobaccos and by the northern colonies on liquor imports, motor vehicles, and foodstuffs. The Minister stressed the fact, that tho payment of what was virtually; a subsidy to secure an open- marketwould: fie justified only if they were aide' to 1 anticipate eventual - political union or federation, If could not continue indefinitely, and he warned manufacturers not to build industries on a settlement for which there was no guarantee of permanence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 15
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