ATTACK ON IMPERIAL PREFERENCE
CONDEMNED IN SOUTH AFRICAN ASSEMBLY "PREMIUM ON LAZINESS" By TcloErap!i--Press Association— Copyright Capo Town, May 26. The income tax debate in the Union Assembly developed into a discussion on Imperial preference, which Professor Fremnntlo denounced as poisonous, and ■Mr. Merriman described as "absolutely ludicrous, and a premium on tho indiirerenco and laziness of tho British manufacturer." General Botha, tho Prime Minister, said that' if preference- werq abolished reciprocity, would be impossible. This would do much harm to South Africa. Tlio Hertzogitcs favour tho abolition of preference-. The' debate was adjourned. Professor Fremontlo (according to an amplified message by the "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Cable Service) denounced tariff preference as a badgo of slavery, to wliich South Africans only submitted because they were afraid of beinrr accused of disloyalty. Tho Hertzogites received the. remark with cheers. TAX ON LAND. Gape Town, May 20. General , Smuts, Union Minister, has given notico of an amendment deleting the exemption recording the area of land occupied, and substituting a tax on land not beneficially occupied.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19140528.2.36
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2160, 28 May 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
174ATTACK ON IMPERIAL PREFERENCE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2160, 28 May 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in