BRITISH DUTIES.

Wairarapa Age, 23 July 1936, Page 2

BRITISH DUTIES.

POSITION OF DOMINIONS DAIRY PRODUCE. PROPOSAL APPARENTLY DROPPED. LONDON, July 21. It is understood that behind Major R. H. Dorman-Smith’s question flu the House of Commons whether there is an understanding that there shall not be a duty on Dominion dairy produce is a search of the reason for the abandonment of a proposal which the Minister of Agriculture communicated to the Dominion Premiers in June, 1935, that ’it was intended to impose a duty of 15s a hundredweight on Dominion butter and 30s a hundredweight on foreign. The Minister, Mr. Walter Elliot, and the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Runciman, were uninfor mative, but it is generally assumed that the abandonment of the proposal is not unconnected with the recent discussions with Ministers by the Australian Minister of Commerce, Dr, Earle Page. (It was reported yesterday that ik the House of Commons the Minister of Agriculture informed Major DormanSmith that no decision had been taken whether or not there shall be a tax on dairy products from the Dominions, nor was there any understanding on the matter). LEVY ON DOMINION MEAT. ADVOCATED BY CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS. (Received Wednesday, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. The Conservative members of the House of Commons Agricultural Committee urges the Government to impose a preferential levy on meat from the Dominions in order to reduce the beef subsidy.