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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1922, Page 5

The tariff barrier has been raised tc some extent against other natfone, including that of our American cousins,* said Mr. A. G. Lunn, retiring president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting. “But they wil realise the uecessity for this,” he continued, “and see that we are following the example they set for us by raising tariff walls in their early days to protect their young and growing industries, and if the results achieved are proportionate to those achieved by the Unitod States we ehail have cause to bless them for such an admirable lead. In any case there is growing evidence in New Zealand of a more friendly feeling toward our cousins in the States, and it ia to be hoped that this feeling may be fostered and intensified by an increasing exchange of commodities between the two countries. We require many American goods, and doubtless the American palate generally will soon discover what ac many visiting Americans have diecovered, namely, that there is no butter do the world to equal the product of ou» little country.”

The Dannevirke, News understands that the case of the two men who were recently sentenced in D&nnevirtye by Justices of the Peace to six months’ imprisonment, mention of which was made in Parliament towards the end of' the Hpssion, was recently reviewed by the Prisons Board, on whose recommendation the men have now bean released.