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.GOVERNMENT CRITICISED , MANUFACTURERS’ SUPPORT (Elbe. Tel. Copyright—United Prase Assn.) (Received November 5,' 2 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. Mr. George Turrell, president <if the National Union of Manufacturers, moved at the annual meeting in favor of customs and other regulations of importation of produce, urging the Government to negotiate with the Dominions on a preferential basis in the interests of inter-imperial trade. He added that the Imperial Conference, was a great disappointment. The Government was simply offering the Dominions theoretical problems devoid of business reality. The Conservative Party, but for the Beaverbrook-Rother-mcre propaganda. would still bo muddling with safeguarding under free trade domination. The next Conservative •Government should have a free hand to negotiate with the Dominions. Mr. Turn'll urged the termination of miserable bickering With the press. The motion was carried, despite Mr. Thomas Howard’s assertion that- tho Beaverbrook stunt would delay the safeguarding of manufacturers for 20 years, while dumping smashed industries to smithereens.
A matter of direct interest to Australia has been the keen debate of the economic co-operative committee of the Imperial Conference in favor of retaining existing preferences) The heads of the delegations, notably Messrs. Moloney and Stevens, at the last two meetings alluded to, Mr. Snowden’s House of Commons declaration in favor of wiping out all preferences at the first opportunity. It was emphasised that, in Australia’s case her preferences to Britain were worth £0,000,000 a year, compared with the £2,000,000 site enjoyed at the hands of Britain. It was urged that Britain’s favored position with Australia was just as worth retaining as Australia’s advantage in Britain, if an extension of the system could not bo entertained.
It was significant that every Dominion supported the Australian and Canadian arguments, Britain’s decision on which ig not revealed,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 8
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