THE NEXT WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 15 September 1915, Page 8

THE NEXT WAR.

PROTECTION OF BRITISH TRADE. j A PROHIBITIVE SURTAX. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Dnn-'Ms COMPLEX PROBLEM. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE Sin OLD I DECIDE. I The test means cf protecting n.«d foatering British trade instead or' Jetting- it drift to tlhe enemy agai'i afr •• the war is at present agitatuj; the minds cf the commercial conuuuaity of this Dominion and the r.-a t >n'<:. I The Chamber of Commerv* ons.chred the matter at length last e en ng. The Association of th e New Zealand Cfaambers of Commerce forwarded .suggested resolutions, but when they had been fully thrashed out the,y were found to be of a very short-sighted nature. The suggested resolution advocated iimposing a surtax on all goods of German origin, but it wa s feared that New Zealand consumers would be penalised at the expense of tiho British manufacturers, who would eith-

er put up their prices or else gain commission on German goods "made in

Britain."

j Mr L. T. Bassett dealt very ably ■ with 1/he question, but his speech is ; unavodiably crowded out. The folio wj'ing motion moved by Mr Bassett mid seconded by Mr Coleman, was carried: I "That flhis meeting- urges th.g Government to make temporary provision so [that from the termination of the war the operation of the present Trading Wjith the Enemy ,A£t,' the Government use their utmost endeavours in | urging the Imperial authorities to promptly arrange that an Imperial C< nference, fully representative '">f the Empire, decide the best methods cf eonsoliidaltjing and extending Empire j trade with provisional preference to jthe Allies, so to, as far as possible, (prevent trading with present c'femy i countries."