IMPERIAL PREFERENCE
ANOTHER LOSS TO BRITAIN. Received May 8, 9.15 p.m. (Reuter). LONDON, May 7. In the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater asked if the Chancellor of the Exchequer would reconsider the decision regarding Imperial preference, in view of the loss to the British paper industry and the great increase of unemployment caused by the threatened loss of £3 per ton preference over foreign on Englishmade newsprint delivered in Australia. Mr Graham said he was unaware that the Australian Government intended to alter the arrangement, but negotiations '•ad been progressing for some time for ide conclusion of a trade agreement between Australia and Canada.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 5
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106IMPERIAL PREFERENCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 5
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