BRITISH POLITICS.
'Pa»ss Association.— Copsbight. ■ FOREIGN TARIFFS AND BRITISH TRADE. REPORT OF THE ENGINEERING COMMISSION. A WARNING TO TARIFF EXTREMISTS . (Received January 29, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. The Tariff Commission's report on tho engineering industry states that 77 firms replied that they were unaffected by foreign' competition in the home market. Iv 500 products the ' foreign tariffs, especially of France, Germany and the United States, and Central Europe, seriously interfered •with experts in many branches of engineering, but where colonial preference operated upon engineering products this had brought benefit. The Rt. Hon. John Sinclair, M.P. for Forfarshire. Secretary for Scotland, has been raised to the peerage with a view to securing the presence in the Lords of a Cabinet Minister responsible for Scottish business. Lord Londonderry, formerly Lord President of the Council, in a speech at Belfast, warned the Conservative Unionists that if extremists placed their fiscal views in the forefront, overlooking the dangers of Irish Home Rule, , the result at the next election would be serious to the party and full of danger to Ireland.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19090129.2.38
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 29 January 1909, Page 3
Word Count
176BRITISH POLITICS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 29 January 1909, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in