MANUFACTURERS' CONFERENCE.
p PROTECTION AND PREFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—C-opyricht Launceston, March 23. Resolutions adopted at the conference of the Associated Chambers of Manufacturers favoured a thoroughly, protective tariff, adequate preference for locallymade goods, a non-political permanent Tariff Board, the preservation of tho national forests, and the prohibition of dangerous and [sic] indecent drugs. Another resolution urged tho Commonwealth Government to support preference to British goods carried in British ships, with a suggestion that tho s.ubject bo raised by the Australian representatives at the Imperial Conference. The conference carried a resolution in favour of a sories of All-Austrnliau Exhibitions being held in the capital cities in rotation, the first to be held in Melbourne in 1913. It was also decided to hold an Australian Manufacturers' Week simultaneously throughout the Commonwealth. PREJUDICED AUSTRALIANS. Sydney, March 23. At the master tanners' picnic, complaint was made of the blind prejudice against locally-uiade goods, especially boots and shoes.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 5
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153MANUFACTURERS' CONFERENCE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 5
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