TRADE WITH BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1920, Page 5

TRADE WITH BRITAIN.

PROSPECT OF A RECOVERS

DOMINION TARIFF REVISION. By Telegraph.—Press Association.' Wellington, June 17. Mr. R. W. Dalton, British Trade Qom* missioner, was entertained at lunoheon, to-day by the British Manufacture* and Agents' Association of New Zetland prior to his departure. In the amine of his remarks Mr. Dalton saidthe British'export trade to' New Zealand in 1914 was 07 per cent, of the totajj in 1919 it decreased to 45 per cent. 'The' United States share in the came Mriod rose from 11 to 27 per cent. H* believed' there was every pmpect- of British trade retrieving its former jpaai<! tion .and passing it. Wellington, Last Nigbt. At a lunoheon tendered to-day Dalton, Mr. Massey, replying to; the toast of Parliament, highly pousecL Mr. Dalton's work for British trade, ana kit intense interest in and affeetion for New Zealand. He endorsed Mr. DaltoaVljiew that Great Britain would fully reran the trade it lost in New Zealand £ai elsewhere. f The Government had decided MP? tariff revision would be part of the tttii* ness of Parliament in 1621. The Vprk would be long, arduous, and' complicated, as they knew that since Pawsment had revised the tariff thidpn years ago many anomalies bad crept jit, and modifications were now very nttes* sary, Mr. Massey referred to bit vocacy of British Imperial preferenot in the late conference. That waß part of the Imperial Government's policy MV, and was in fact the l»w of the land. {Eteprinciple had been adopted, and tU wedge driven in, and he hoped It «wi .be driven in further and that New wi*"; land would give it fuller support. Tj He referred specially to the relUtafl vEurope had on Germany for sugar, TpW?!: should raise it all within the Emm# but in war or peace they shouM nSSi again rely upon any foreign eoflßH for things that could be prodneejfjii' the Empire. England had to givo uptiwi idea of according preference to[ +jjf people. Tliey must now confine it to ffi British Empire. . ' • ,