SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 1 April 1909, Page 2

SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR.

TARIFF CHANGES INEVITABLE. Received March 31, 11.40 p.m. London, March 31. Mr Balfour, addressing ten thousr and people at the Agricultural Hall, said that nothing .was*- more moving and magnificent, than the' unsolicited response of New Zealand. With a population equal tofive out of the 28 London boroughs, her -gift -was equivalent to moro per head than the annual taxation per head in . Britain. If such gifts were accepted Britain could not refuse oversea states preference, and a fiscal change was now inevitable. ; The new. system must grant what the whole constellation of sister.states steadily, persistentlyand patieutdy asked -tf or year after year.