The N.Z. Act.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11167, 30 January 1904, Page 5

The N.Z. Act.

(Per United Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, January 1 29. The Premier, through His Excellency the .Governor, has received the following cable from the Secretary of State, inreply to his despatch of December 1, notifying the passing of the Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act:— "His Majesty will not be advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to Act No. 78, 1903, but I assume your Ministers realise that any advantage which may be granted to foreign Governments in future by virtue of and within the space of arrangement under section 13 cannot be withheld from a third foreign Power entitled by treaty to most favoured nation treatment in New Zealand."