TARIFFS IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1930, Page 2

TARIFFS IN BRITAIN

DESIRE FOR PROTECTION.

GROWING TENDENCY NOTED. “There is an undoubted feeling in England for some sort of tariff reform,” said Mr. A. McNicol, of Dannevirke, a member of the New Zealand delegation to the Empire Press Conference, who returned to Wellington this week by the Maunganui. Mr. McNicol said he had spoken in England to Sir James i’arr, who was in the forefront of the Beaverbrook campaign, and had been assured that there was a big industrial swing toward a. policy for the protection of British manufactures. This, seemed .to have been out, for instance, by the recent by-elections in the'industrial centres, said Mr. McNicol. He referred to the example of a by-election in a staunch industrial division ip Glasgow, which had been overwhelmingly in favour of the Labour candidate at the previous elections. On the occasion in point, however, the “Empire crusader” had? come within an ace of winning. A. majority .of .6000 in favour of Labour, had dwindled to 400. It was typical of a. growing tendency. Tariff reform as advocated by I,ord Beaverbrook or anyone else was leading the campaign. The trouble with a large body of conservative people really in favour of some sort of tariff reform was that they resented the personal-.at-tacks that were being made on Mr. Stanley Baldwin in the Rothermere Press.