COLONIAL MEAT.
NO UNIONIST TAX INTENDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. December 16, 9.5 p.m.) London, December 16. Mr.. Bonar Law, Leader of the Opposition), writing to a correspondent, declared that the Unionists did not. intend to impose a tax on colonial wheat.
Sir John Simon, Solicitor-General, criticising Lord Lansdowno's recent speech at the Albert Hall, asked whether tho Tariff Reformers intended to tax colonial articles of food. Was it the Unionist policy to tax colonial produce, thus causing a grievance to the British consumer by increasing: food prices and a grievance to tho colonial producer, who would be denied free access to the Motherland's markets?
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 7
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105COLONIAL MEAT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 7
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