IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 5 April 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

PREFERENCE ISSUE. .Received Ap:i\ 4, 8.17 a.m. LONDON, April 3. The Daily Express declares that the Imperial Government has spurned Australia's offer ©f preference in order-to prevent the Imperial Conference coining to a decision adverse to British fiscal policy. Sir William Lynq, Commonwealth Minister for Trade and Customs, and one of the Australian delegates to the Navigation Conference, while expressing a desire to abstain from entering into controversial British politics, explained that the Commonwealth Parliament is practically unanimously in favour of preference with the Motherland, but the matter is left in suspense owing to the Imperial Government's helief that Australia's action would interfere with treaty rights.

FISCAL LESSONS FROM GERMANY, WORKERS' DEPUTATION. Received April 4, 10,3 a.m. LONDON, April 3. A deputation of British workmen, who, under Mr Algernon Moreing, are vjsitingjGermany, have published a report, which states that under the German tariff, though meat is temporarily dearer, the German pays no more than the Briton for anything. The eating of black bread is a matter of taste rather than of poverty. A small minority eat horseflesh. The report adds that there is work in abundance, and that employers are clamouring for skilled labour.