THE FEDERAL TARIFF.
ITS EFFECT ON FIJIAN TRADE. SYDNEY MERCHANTS ALARMED. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 28,1.6 a.m. Sydney, November 27. of 57 mercantile {firms and shipping companies in Sydney have forwarded a petition to Mr Kingston, Fedeial Minister for Trade and Customs, s'ating that tbey view with ahrm the almost certain destruction of trade between Sydney and Fiji and other Pacific Islands if the Federal Tariff is adopted. They ask him to take into special consideiation tlie trade of the Commonwealth with islands, and to pi ce on the frea list such products as copra, bananas, peanuts, pineapples, bechede-mer, vanilla, pearlshell, and turtle si ell. The petitioners remind Mr Kingston that recently, when New Zealand was trying to bring about the federation ot Fiji with that colony, the Fedeial Government strongly protested to Mr Chamberlain against the movement. It would, tbereforp, appear to bs inconsistent for the Federal Government now to so tax products from Fiji, tbat trade must undoubtedly be forced to New Zealand and lost to the Commonwealth.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 281, 28 November 1901, Page 3
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170THE FEDERAL TARIFF. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 281, 28 November 1901, Page 3
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