THE QUESTION OF PREFERENCE
A Lead for the Government Press Association —Copyright. Loxnox, March S. The Associated Chambers of Commerce have urged the Government to so conduct the negotiations at the Colonial Conference that reciprocal trading may be promoted within the Empire. The mover of the resolution, Mr Reacle, of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, maintained that the colonics wished for preference, and, if refused, Canada particularly, would seek it elsewhere, thus leading to the dim u Gyration of the Empire, There were only a dozen dissentients to this view.
The meeting also, 'by 40 to 38, adopted a resolution urging the Government to make the metric system compulsory.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8759, 9 March 1907, Page 2
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109THE QUESTION OF PREFERENCE Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8759, 9 March 1907, Page 2
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