ADVOCACY OF PREFERENCE.
: FISCAL POLICY OF BRITAIN. IMPORTANCE TO NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Sept. 24. If at the Imperial Conference Britain’s representatives stood, firm for the old. free trade policy it might result in a loosening of the bonds of Empire, said Sir Geo. Elliot, 'speaking at a shareholders’ annual meeting to-day. A* the result of the preferential tariff: 80 per cent, of New Zealand’s came from. Britain. But for preference it was probable Britain would loee 50 per eent. of that business. . New Zealand supplied about £40,000,000 ’worth of goods to Britain, but this had. to be sold -without preference in competition with the goods of foreign countries ■whose economic ' standards were much lower. If Britain granted preference to Empire foodstuffs extra cost to Britain would be very small but of benefit to the overseas Empire of the utmost importance. . , ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 9
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