SAFEGUARDING IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1930, Page 7

SAFEGUARDING IN BRITAIN

“MR. SNOWDEN OBSCURE” CONSERVATIVES’ CHALLENGE FEAR REMOVAL OF DUTIES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, November 21. There is much dissatisfaction ..mong Conservatives at the tone, as well as the manner of Mr. Snowden’s replies concerning safeguarding. The Morning Post says the Chancellor of the Exchequer selected the most shifty and most obscure language at his command but his plain intention emerged to sweep away the rest of the safeguarding duties and to reduce and damage the McKenna duties as far as he can. The Daily Herald says Mr. Snowden's statement means definitely that safeguarding duties will not be extended. The duties on cutlery, gas mantles, and gloves will end in December, and the duties on writing paper, pottery, buttons, enamel, and hollowware will expire between 1930 and 1933. The Daily Telegraph remarks: “The intention of the Conservatives to challenge the whole fiscal policy of the Government does not come too soon. The Ministry’s incompetence to face the rapidly worsening situation is becoming tragic. Its whole' policy consists cf the successive removal of all existing safeguards, inadequate though they are.”