THE COMMONWEALTH TARIFF.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 30 September 1907, Page 5

THE COMMONWEALTH TARIFF.

[ ANOTHER PROTEST. RecelvedJSeptember 29, 4.25 p.m. LONDON, September 28." The Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution protesting against the enforcement of the Commonwealth tariff without affording adequate opportunity for carrying out existing contracts. Mr Brooke, proposer of the resolution, declared that it was unfair to trap traders into sending goods at a 15 per cent, duty before the tariff was imposed, and to charge 30 per cent, when the goods reached Australia. Alderv.ian Walker, in seconding the motion, said that a greater injustice had never been perpetrated by any Government. Hitherto time had always been allowed before enforcing new duties. A REPLY. LONDON, September 27. In a letter to The Times, the Commonwealth Agent in London, Captain Collins, has made a full reply to the correspondent "Zollverein," who in the same journal declared that Mr Deakin, the Federal Prime Minister, was a bondsman of the Labour party, that the tariff showed Mr Deakiri's complete subjection to Labcur, that the Federal Premier had shed his Imperialist ideas, and that tariff reform in Australia was only a stalking horse for Protection, buttered with Socialism.

PRESS COMMENT ON A RESOLUTION. LONDON, September 27. The Daily Chronicle declares that the resolution adopted by the Aurw tralasian section of the London Chamber of Commerce will only confirm the present Commonwealth Government in the belief that their 1 tariff policy is right. The paper adds: —"They want prohibition, not protection. There will soon be a reaction brought about by dear prices caused by stagnation and a decline in railway business, not by the British traders' protests."