EFFECT OF PREFERENCE ON PRICES.
WOULD NOT MAKE PEOPLE'S FOOD DEARER. A NECESSARY EMPIRE-BUILDING MEASURE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March .12, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, March 11. Mr W. P. Massey, speaking at Liverpool, said that many people were suspicious of Imperial preference, but there was hope for the sinner who repents. He looked at the question from an Empire-building viewpoint, and he could not agree that preferences signified an increased cost of living. A proper scheme of preference would so encourage and increase production that prices would not rise. If such a scheme had operated 10 years ago there would have been cheaper prices in Great Britain to-day. England had allowed the sugar industry to be strangled in favour of the foreigner.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 962, 12 March 1917, Page 7
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124EFFECT OF PREFERENCE ON PRICES. Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 962, 12 March 1917, Page 7
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