PREFERENTIAL TRADE.
The Tariff Commissioners.
Preto AeßOciation.— Telegraph.— Copyright
Eeceivfed December 30/ 11 p.m.
LONDON, 'December 30. ■
The. following additional appointments have been made to the Tariff Commission : — Sir Robert Herbert (chairman), Sir George Kyder (late chairmair~of the Board of Customs) ; Mr Clements Smith, formerly Governor of Straits Settlement; Sir .John Cockburn, Agent-General for South Australia; Messrs -Frederick Baquer, Manchester cotton manufacturer'; Henry Bostock, boot manufacturer; Stafford Charles Eckorsley, director of the ' Fine Coitou' Spinners' "Association ; , Francis .Elgar, managing director, of the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company; Lewis vicepresident of the Paper-makers' Association; Gallaghei-,to&acco manufacturer, Belfast; Alfred Gilbey, director- M. and' A. J Gilbey; W. Hairriaon, president Agricul- i tural Engineer^' AEso'ciafiqn'f Johnston Kea-^ wick, chairman Rio Tinto Co. ; Charles Lyle, chairman of^Aoram.'.Lyl'e and Sons, sugar refiners ; Henry A. Marshall, Britannia) Iron Works,- Gainsborough; James \ Kank, Clarence Flour Mills, Hull ; Bridges Webb, chairman of the Baltic Shipping Eac*-° change. Received December 31, -12.8 .a.m.. LONDON, December 30. -
Members of the Tariff Commission state it is not within their Bcope to define the nature of the arrangement with regard to colonial trade or to make ; representations regarding preferential trade. The colonies will be asked to have such toatters settled by negotiations. The colonial members of tho Commission hold watching briefs only.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11142, 31 December 1903, Page 5
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208PREFERENTIAL TRADE. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11142, 31 December 1903, Page 5
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