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MANUKA CTU REPS FEARS
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this dav at 10 a.m.'
LONDON, March 11
The Australian section of the British Manufacturers Association hurriedly held a meeting to consider the rumour of a super tariff in Australia. Sir Balfour said it would ibe a drastic expedient to cure a temporary situation. Experience has proved it is easy to raise a tariff but very difficult to lower it.
Owing to the increase of Australian duty on British made cigars a hundred British cigar makers were permanently unemployed and the number of cigars made had dropped two millions, said A. Wall, secretary of the London Tracies Council, presiding at a conference of employers of the cigar trade called to consider methods of reviving the industry.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1930, Page 6
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