The Reciprocal Treaty.
(Per Press Association). Melbourne, February 20. At a meeting of the Cabinet, the Premier brought under notice the protest made hy the Board of Viticulture against the reciprocal , treaty arranged by the Premier of South Australia and the Colonial Treasurer of New Zetland. The protest urged such a treaty would be the deathblow to the wine trade with New Zealand, and would retard federation and ; intercolonial freetrade. ..,,.. .The Cabinet decided to communicate with the 1 Premiers of South Australia and Hew Zealand, asking them not 2 to take steps to ratify treaty on the ground that it would prove a hindrance to Federation, and requesting them to hold the arrangement in abeyance for a few months till it eoulibe seen if it was possible to put the Federation scheme; adopted at the Pre* miers' Conference into operation. A»EtAp>B,"Feb. 30. At a meeting of farmera in ' the 'sontb> extern djstrict a resolution was" passed ■ ; P l r P. t SM.n«-fgljM?#^^ t^e/propo^iweTp^rocat treaty wi% New Zealanf, on the IrouDqs. it wp^ld bjehefit this fruitgrowers :
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 199, 21 February 1895, Page 2
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175The Reciprocal Treaty. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 199, 21 February 1895, Page 2
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