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ACTION BY BRITISH GOIANA!.
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The Legislative Council of British Guiana Ims granted Great- Canada. utid the- Empire generally,, preferential treatment. ..... .
EFFECT ON CANADIAN INDUSTRIES..,
WOOLLEN TRADE DECLINING.
MONTREAL,; Sepft 16- v Mr Rolland. in his presidential address to tin? Convention of the Canadian Manufacturers' Associatiorts' at; Montreal, said that under the preferential tariff Trjtii Britain the woollen industry had steadily <te* elined. Tlie value of |hfe woollen faciuros imported for - the year •» ondhjg April, 1597, was £1,400.000, and the v value . for ihe year 'ending April s last "was J34,200.000. There had be?ti sinc& .1900 a decrease in this capital invested'in' CSi« nadian wool production of £72,000,- Sta tic hands employed of 2200, and in; the ahwnal value of the products of £320,000. lie appealed Canadians to* insist : on an increase in the woollendriHes to prevent 1 the extinct inn of ths industry'* :!$
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13703, 18 September 1908, Page 5
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