IMPERIAL TARIFF PROPOSALS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1930, Page 9

IMPERIAL TARIFF PROPOSALS

OPINION DIVIDED IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright.. London, October 14. .-Discussing the tariff preferences, the Times says never has there been manitested such, strong desires on the part of the Dominions to co;operate with Britain. , ' Tue Daily Man says ths proposal# o! the Dominions have not been rejected outright, but handed over to departments for an examination which will require weeks and months. Any other nation would have jumped at such an offer The News-Chronicle says the peril of the situation is that the Dominion Prime Ministers have a totally false idea of the real balance of opinion in Britain on such a question as foodstuffs. The sooner the Government makes it plain that Britain is opposed to protection the better. The board of directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce passed a motion yesterday stating that while .it had no reason to suppose the majority of members would be opposed in principle to variations in Great Britain’s fiscal policy, as part of an Empirewide plan, any such plan must be based on a real equality of contribution and sacrifice as between the different countries in the British Empire. The Canadian proposals seemed to the board to call for a sacrifice by Great Britain out of all proportion to the contributions proposed by Canada.