TARIFF QUESTION.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1930, Page 6

TARIFF QUESTION.

“ALL ATJS TB ALT AN. ”

CLOTHES OF FEDERAL MINISTER

LONDON, January 16

There, was an amusing reference made to the ffuct that the Hon. Air Fenton, the Australian Commonwealth Cabinet Minister on bis visit to England is wearing “All Australian” clothes, by Mr T. H. Bates, the Chairman of the Bradford Branch of the Wool Manufacturers’ Federation dinner at Bradford. He said that they would bo pleased to see find hear what Mr Fenton had to. say about the Australian tariff, which, he said, paralysed the Bradford Branches’ West Riding trade. He hoped that Mr Fenton would come in Australian clothes. He would he interested to see what they- looked like. They should be glad, however, if the clothes wore worn out at the end of Afr Fenton’s mission, so that Afr Fenton would then he obliged, before his return to Australia, to stuff bis portmanteau full of clothes hearing the hall mark of “Savill Row” which is London’s fashionable tailoring quarter.

F?ALTA’S GOOD PROSPECTS

LONDON, January' 16

Commenting on a report by- Air Dalton. i ritish Trade Commissioner, the

“Financial Timas” says of Australia: —The present time may' hardly be propitious ;l ' r a great increase of trade, bit a country' with such unrivalled r -ources is not likely long to remain in a comparative depression. The editorial stresses 'the fact that enterprising foreign countries can surmount the Australian tariff harrier to a substantial extent, and it endorses AL- Dalton’s suggestion of the need of a closer investigation and a greater effort to increase British exports to the Australian markets.

LONDON PRESS MAGNATES

NEW YORK, January 15

On arriving here on Wednesday Lord Rothermere intimated that lie substantially, but not completely, endorsed Lord Beaverbrook’s Empire trade policy, but said he is opposed to any move to impose duties on agricultural products. He does not believe that the Empire can be made an economic unit at one jump. This will come, he said, if at all, '(by stages. At present he was concentrating on securing a high protective tariff in Great Britain on manufactured goods, with no suggestion of any duty import on foodstuffs.