TARIFF REFORM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 March 1914, Page 5

TARIFF REFORM.

THE UNIONIST POLIC.7,

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, February 28.

The Bight Hon. A. Bonar Law, Leader of the. Opposition, in a letter to the journal "Our Flag," outlines the Unionist policy in regard to tariff reform at the next election. It is not, he says, prepared to impose new food duties. On the contrary, it is hoped' to remove some of the existing duties. The Unionist party would impose a tariff of not exceeding an average of ten per cent on foreign goods, and would establish an Imperial preference. Such duties could be justified, on the strictest Freetrade principles, hy the needs of the revenue; also on the same ground as the revenue tariffs of Freetrade in India and Egypt The farmers would be compensated by using a portion of the tariff revenue in reducing the burdens on agriculture. There would also be a readjustment of the local taxation. The annual value of imported luxuries is £30,000,000, which are best able to-bear the tariff. t FRANCE'S FISCAL POLICY. TO BELIEVE LAND FROM TAXATION. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) PARIS, February 28. The Chamber of Deputies, by 329 votes to 214, approved the Government's fiscal reform policy, notably to relieve land trom taxation.