PREFERENCE FOR THE DOMINIONS
MOTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Times-Sydney Sun Special Service.) (By Telegraph.) LONDON, February 17. In the House of Commons, Captain Vyron moved an amendment to the Address in favour of Imperial preference without imposing frsh tint is on food stuff’s, also the imposition of a moderate duty, not exceeding ten per cent, to safeguard the stability of productive inlustries. Mr Bnekmaster .stated that the Cabinet was convinced that no solution of the industrial unrest could he found in a change of the system which had made Biitain rich and strong. Mr Bonar Law maintained that the unfiseal system was applicable to all countries and at all times. He was not idvoeating protection, and never had, hut ho merely sought for preference for our own people. The moment his party attained power it would give the Dominions precisely what they asked for. The amendment was lost hv 283 to
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14220, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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152PREFERENCE FOR THE DOMINIONS Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14220, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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