PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12907, 22 February 1906, Page 5

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

NEW ZEALAND AND THE COMMON ■WRAITH.

United Pr«s». Association—Per Electric

T«l»jrr*ph— Copvrigbt. MELBOURNE,*February 21. Mr Deakin states that Bin conversation with Sit Joseph Ward in regard to preferential trade: with Njew Ze.i3.md was a piejiniin.uT oue, and they did no! consider details. He "»| in agreement with the proposition so iax as the genera] principle is concerned. If Mr Scddon cornea over in April he will go thoroughly into the matter, which If not one to be hurried along. It would be .ipiml thins: to examine the tariff >chednle* of both countries and ascertain if an, arrjitisctnent satv-factoiy'-io bolli sides rotrid he nude.' Australia does not wan? dimply a sentimental arrangement, and one tint would wist in naine only. If it is found tin* sheie is ■-» piospect of fostering trade by .altering the dune.-, then the nutter heoinc* one -'for veiv serious consideration. Sir W. •]. Lysie snys lie dots wot **e how tht-ie can be. r«dpu«.3l ta-ide 5» .my extent, except in primary production* «nd intct<\*is. Tasmania coiild not he ignored. and in that connection Ist foiled U>.n£C how; they could make* any .-dSeratioo wluvlt wou'd rob Tasmania of the frail* of her union wish the other States of the Commonwealth. He ttill tegatded it as u

healthy tign tb« New Zealand wa* inalsing a move towards gelling a social treaty with the Commonwealth. There %re many indigenous product* in ccMUMctwo with which it. wvtajd be 1« ibe tmrtval advantage of the two coanlrics to emie It! term*-

Sir JoMi-ph Ward combat* «Sir W. J. Lyae's Matameot that New Zealand w anxious far pj*fcrence in conMqnence «f the big .*]Joe Tasmania. ha* cot <off New Zealand trade. He claims that federation ha* not appreciably aifected trade with his colony, and the reciprocal airangwnenH. aa proposed, wt.uld jj«l interfere in any way detriments! U* the trade *»f cither country. Many duties in. Ib« jcpeetive UaHflV failed to dcve'.op local industrie*. and in regard to these la*.t be thought a, mutually sati*factory arrangement might be made.