THE FEDERAL TARIFF.
NEW PROTECTION PRINCIPLE. THE GOVERNMENT'S .SCHEME. Received Oetober 2, 9.13 a.m. MELBOURNE, October 2. Sir W. Lyne (Federal Treasurer) announced in the House the Government scheme for giving effect to the new Protection principle. The ehief points are; — An Exni.ee Board, to be advised by assessors, will be created. All factories are to be registered, and officials are to have full powers of inspection, access to wages sheets and other details. All goods bearing the Commonwealth trade-mark will be exempt. The Excise Board will have power in certain cases to recommend that duties should be lowered or abolished.
DISCUSSION ON THE TARIFF. Received October 2, 8.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, October 2. The House resumed discussion of the tariff. Mr G. H. Reid announced that the Opposition, while strenuously endeavouring to carry out the Freetrade principle as far as possible, would assist those with more moderate views than Ministers in making the duties less extravagant.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8547, 3 October 1907, Page 5
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156THE FEDERAL TARIFF. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8547, 3 October 1907, Page 5
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