TARIFF REFORM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 30 May 1908, Page 5

TARIFF REFORM.

SPEECH BY LORD MILNER.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LONDON, May 29. Lord Milner, addressing the annual meeting of the Women's Unionist Tariff Reform Association, dwelt on the progress of tariff reform. He was convinced that a change was coming. Duties would be • imposed, whatever party was in power. He insisted en the need of: an elastic fiscal system, and contended that the policy of colonial preference was a powerful agency in developing the ideal of Empire as a family of nations. (Received May 30. 9.10 a.m.)^ LONDON, May 29. Lord Milner, at the Women's tariff reform meeting, emphasised that before a permanent fiscal change was possible there must bo a conversion of th« national mind extending far beyond the. bounds of one party, similar to that which in Sir Robert Peel's tinu', brought £he bulk of the people on to the side of what has been called free trade.