THE SUGAR BOUNTIES.
. Important Decision. j LONDON, June 7. In the House of Commons yesterday the Foreign Secretary (Sir Edward _ey) announcea that Great Britain had intimated to the nations concerned in :he Sugar Convention that she is pre-jarc-i. to withdraw from tne Convention In 1908.
[The Liberal Government, in keeping with its free-trade principles, has shown frequent hostility to the continuance of the sugar bounties, and Mr Lloyd-George,
in a statement made in the House of Commons on March 27 of last year, although he was unwilling to support a definite resolution on the subject, indicated his conviction that the benefits conferred on the West Indies by the j bounty were a negligible quantity.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1907, Page 5
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