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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 March 1927, Page 12

‘‘Australia has demonstrated in _ clearest way the value of preference British goods. It is tariff prefere coupled with the sincere desire of A tralians to prefer to purchase EmP rather than foreign goods which made Australia a market so valua to Great Britain, that to-day she a sorbs more British goods than Tt _i v combined purchases of France, I - Belgium, Spain and Portugal, the first nine months of 1926 these western European countries boug £44,000,000 from Great Britain, wnn Australia purchased £45,500.000. 1924-25 Australia admitted Br;ugoods to the value of over £ 26.000. duty free, but these goods, which r v resented 38.2 per cent, of the valu the total British exports to Austra»«* would all have been dutiable had * been of foreign origin. In a in which British industry must competitiqn, the severity of VV \? IC “ increasing every year, pre ,f r fv,er such as Australia gives to the MO • Country is of the very greatest vai —Sir Joseph Cook.