PREFERENCE TO EMPIRE

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1930, Page 9

PREFERENCE TO EMPIRE

POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. MR. POLSON ASKS QUESTIONS. (By Wire—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. In view of the importance of the subject and the anxiety and unanimity of the primary producers of the Dominion and the Empire on the question, Mr. W. J. Polson intimated in tne House today that he intends to ask the Prime Minister if he will give the House an early opportunity of hearing and discussing the policy of the Government on the question of preferential trade within the Empire at the approaching Imperial Economic Conference. “At the Empire conference of British and. Dominion farmers held in Wellington at the end of March,” said Mr. Polson, “it was unanimously resolved that preferential treatment of Empire goods throughout the Empire was vital to the interests of the primary producers.” Mr. Polson also intends to ask whether the Government will honour the promise given last session to introduce a Bill providing for a small levy on wool for the purpose of wool research.