OTHER SPEAKERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14011, 16 September 1909, Page 2

OTHER SPEAKERS.

Mr, Roger* (Sydney) regarded preferential trade as a wolf in sheep's clothing. The binding influence in the Empire must be free-trade, under which the dumping of foreign articles could be dealt with. • Mr. M'Robert (Upper India) opposed the resolution. Foreign countries j wore India's best customers. Mr. Wiuchcombe (Sydney) said the argument for the proposed change had not proved the necessity for the Km> pi re to protect itself against th? «utside world to buy from it. It was a one-sided arrangement, «nd one they could hardly expert. If they sank down to the U»vel of producing only what they could eat, drink and wear, it would reduce the British Empire t« a lower position in the family of uatfcas than it occupied to-daj, ' i