AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.
London, Dec. 6. Fifteen hundred delegates will b present to-morrow at a conference t< consider the best means of dealing wit! the agricultural depression. Dec. 7. Three thousand persons are present ai the Agricultural Conference. A reaolutioi was passed that imports which oompeti with English agriculturists ought to b< taxed up to the same amount as the hom< products. Mr Jasper Moore, M.P., sai( that a duty of 10 per cent, on Americar corn would produce £5,000,000 for thi relief of the agricultural interest. Othei speakers contended that foreign and co lonial imports were ruining the dairy Industry, and also urged that imported meal should be subjected to the Merchandisf Marks Law and retailing butchers licensed so that the public were not misled intc buying colonial for English meat. A resolution in favor of bimetallism was carried.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2436, 10 December 1892, Page 1
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139AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE. Temuka Leader, Issue 2436, 10 December 1892, Page 1
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