EMPIRE'S TRADE.
DISCUSSED IN HOUSE OF LORDS
Bjt Telegraph— Press Assooiatlon—Copyright Received 5.15 p.m., July 12. London, July 11In the House of Lords, in discussing the preferential tariff enquiry, Lord Northbrook urged that a fiscal j change was not for the benefit of India. 1 ■ Lord Lansdowno said he realised the importance of acting oautiously, but India certainly came within the scope of Bn enquiry aiming to determine whether a plan was discoverable, and to what part of the Empire it could be applied. nial tariffs were protective, but India’s was purely a revonue one. The inquiry must bear in mind that the Motherland wns India’s great creditor. They must take I account of political equality with economic I considerations; otherwise they would I offend the self-governing colonies. It was I intended to publish facts and statistics I collected to show the basis of the Govern- I rnent’s judgment. Lord Goschon welcomed the aunounco I ' men?. The Duke qf Devonshire said that the I Government Were anxious to publish a roport at the earliest possible date.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 940, 13 July 1903, Page 3
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176EMPIRE'S TRADE. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 940, 13 July 1903, Page 3
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