MANUFACTURERS' CONFERENCE

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13333, 23 March 1911, Page 5

MANUFACTURERS' CONFERENCE

IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS. Press Association.— I Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Marcli 23, 10,20 a.m. LAUNCESTON, March 21!. Resolutions adopted by the Manufacturers’ Conference favoured a thoroughly protective tariff, adequate for locally-made goods, a non-political permanent Tariff Board, the preservation of national forests, and prohibition of dangerous and indecent drugs. Another resolution urged the Commonwealth Government to support preference to British goods carried on British ships, with the suggestion that the subject be raised by the Australian representatives at the Imperial Conference.