A Fiscal Campaign.

Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1903, Page 2

A Fiscal Campaign.

TAXATION OF FOOD DENOUNCED. At a meeting held in St.. James's Hall resolutions were adopted protesting against the taxation of food as a great national danger. The Right Hon. H. Asquith (a former Liberal Home Secretary) said Mr Chamberlain’s * proposal meant an immediate addition of eight millions to the people’s bread bill. THE PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE. Mr Chamberlain, at Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s request, undertook to ask the colonial Premiers if they would withdraw their objection to the publication of the text of the discussions at the Premiers’ Conference relative to preference. Mr Chamberlain said he supposed whether Canada would give or withhold further preference would depend on Britain’s offer. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS. Mr H. A. Grainger, Agent-General for South Australia, writing to the “ Nineteenth Century,” suggests the remission on duty on Australian wines, raisins and currants. Sir William Harcourt, in a newspaper article, argues that since the colonies are united to the Motherland in bonds of brotherhood, pride and affection, Mr Chamberlain’s % plan to unite them by obligations of interest is superfluous, while the means proposed would, if adopted, be mischievious to the centre of the Empire.