STILL A LONG WAY OFF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 12

STILL A LONG WAY OFF

IMPEHIAL PREFERENCE OTHER SIDE TO QUESTION Referring to the question of Imperial preference during an address to the Masterton branch of the Fanners' Union, (lie .chairman of the Dairy Board, Mr. W. A. lorns, said that it was often said that the Old Country should give the Dominions preference over ov\ ry other country. The position was, however, that though the Dominions bought more British goods per head of population; than foreign countries, the latter had larger populations and sonic of them were markets that Great Britain could not do without. In the Argent ine, some £400,000,000 of British capital had been invested.

Taking fads like that into account, he said it was evident whatever Lord Bciverbrook and others might say, that it was going to be a long time to get to the point where imperial preference was concerned. The working people at Home realised how much of .heir output went to foreign countries and could not be blamed if they told their Labor members not to agree to put a tariff on foreign products. Mr. lorns spoke of the good woik b.dng done by the Empire Marketing Board, and said that it had lately induced 800 grocers in the north of England w.io had never stocked New Zealand butter before to promise that thev would stock it in future.