TAXES ON FOOD
PRINCIPLE DEFENDED IN HOUSE LORDS SAFEGUARDING FAVOURED British Official Wireless Reed. 11.50 a.m. RUGBY, Wed. In'the House of Lords a motion expressing grave concern regarding the industrial outlook and demanding, as the most immediate and practical remedy, a comprehensive policy of safeguarding of industries, anti-dump-ing and Imperial economic unity, was carried by 103 votes to 25. Lord Salisbury, supporting the motion, said he favoured the greater extension of the tariff and believed the feeling against, food taxes was quite irrational. So long, however, as there were no food taxes, indirect taxation, whether in the form of safeguarding or otherwise, must be kept within limits because high protection without food taxes was impossible. The Government opposed tbe motion. Lord Arnold restated the case for free trade, pointing out that the depression was world-wide. He instanced the United States of America, whose export trade had declined 20 per cent, compared with Britain’s decline of 9.1 per cent.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 11
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158TAXES ON FOOD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 11
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