REDUCED WOOL DUTIES.
YORKSHIRE AROUSED. DEPUTATIONS TO MINISTERS. GREAT HARDSHIPS PREDICTED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received April 23, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON. April 22. There is consternation in the woollen industry as the result of the Tariff Board’s reductions. Many prominent Yorkshire industrialists led a series of deputations to the Board of Trade and other Government Departments to-day. The members of the House of Commons representing woollen constituencies are seething with discontent. The Board of Trade says the matter is out of its hands, and representations must he made to the Advisory Committee, which is disinclined to alter its proposals for a year. I The Yorkshire Observer describes the new tariffs as a shock. | Mr Henry Ayrton, president of the! British Wool Federation, said: "Thera will bC( a tremendous increase in imports, a great slackening in trade, and much unemployment will follow.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18619, 23 April 1932, Page 5
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142REDUCED WOOL DUTIES. Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18619, 23 April 1932, Page 5
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