TRADE AGREEMENT
FEDERATION SUGGESTED. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] CAPETOWN, Feb. 7. The Union Minister of Finance has detailed the terms of a customs agreement that has been made by the Union with Northern and Southern Rhodesia. These principally are concessions by the Union on Rhodesiangrown tobacco, and by the Northern Colonies on liquor imports, motor vehicles, and foodstuffs. The Minister stressed the point that the payment of what was virtually a subsidy to secure an open market would only lie justified if they were able to anticipate the eventual poli-
tical Union or the Federation of Rhodesia. with the Union. The agreement arranged it could not continue indefinitely, and he warned the manufacturers not to build their industries or i a settlement for which there was no guaranteed permanence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1930, Page 3
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