IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
A PARTY DIVISION. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Received 17, 10.30 p.m. London, February 17. Captain <2. C. Tyron's amendment to tlie Address-in-Reply, regretting the Government's refusal to modify the fiscal system by adopting Imperial preference and imposing ten per cent, ndvalorem on foreign goods, was rejected. Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of the Opposition, said that if the question had not become a party one, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be proposing this year the system which the Opposition was now recommending. The Government's social reform, he said, had increased the cost of production, and the least we could do was to impose a duty to reduce the severity of foreign competition. When the Unionists came into power, they would see that every part of the Empire was treated better than the rest of the world.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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138IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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