BRITISH PARLIAMENT
TARIFF PREFERENCES. v LONDON, July 6. In the House of Commons on the report stage of the Finance Bill, a Labourite motion for the deletion of the clause "providing for ,the stabilisation of Imperial preference for a period of ten years was defeated by 227 to 114. Mr Churchill in opposing the motion, said that they could not hind future Parliaments. Nor was there anything in the Government’s policy wliidli would prevent any taxes which were the subject of preference being repealed. All that they said was that, as fains they had power to direct the affairs and tlie will of the present Parliament there should he a continuity of the stability for 10 years. He expressed the opinion that any House of Commons with the slightest sense of responsibility would be very chary of being in a hurry to reverse a declaration like this one, made by a previous Parliament. Therefore the Dominions would he justified in taking the fullest advantages of the preferences, and doing tlieir utmost to develop the different forms of production which the preferences covered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1926, Page 2
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