BRITISH POLITICS.
THE FISCAL CONTROVERSY
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Dec. 14. A women’s branch of the Tariff Reform League has been formed. Its expressed objects are to emphasise tho bonds of tho Motherland and the colonies, and tho importance of developing homo comforts, Received 0.51 a.in., Dee. lfl. LONDON, Dec. 15, Sir Christopher Furness, head of the well-known shipbuilding firm, speaking at West Hartlepool, denied that the shipping trade was decaying.; The Tyne, Hartlepool, and Tees district last year launched more ■tonnage than the whole of the German Empire. ’ Sir John Jenkins, at Swansea, declared that the export of galvanised sheets of tin plates had. greatly increased.
A correspondent in the Times quotes official statistics showing that German emigration in 18S1 ? the year after the protective tariff was adopted, was 4.8 —G per cent, of the population. It fell rapidly till 1901 when it was 0,3!) per cent. He adds: England’s emigrants in 22 years aggregated 2,5G3,25G, and Germany’s 2,011,430,-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1074, 16 December 1903, Page 2
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