MR CROOKS ON "THE COLONIES."
Mr Will Crooks, M.P., is just now in Melbourne, en route for England. In the coarse of an interview he said he was deeply impressed with the strides mate by Australia in social reform, and by its future possibilities. The effect of the Australasian land taxes, as far as he had seen them in operation, was undoubtedly to put land Into the market. "Since Tories are always quoting the colonics," he added, "I aay let there follow the colonies in this direction." Referring to the question of preferential trade, Mr Crooks said:—"The colonial preference question is laughed to scorn whatever I have been. When it is mentioned' that preference will a rise the prices of food, Canadians, New Zealandere, and, so far as I have gone, Australians, have emphatically declined to accept any preferential system having such an effect. They indignantly refuse to have anything to do with any scheme which would increase the price of food to the masses of Great Britain."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 22 December 1909, Page 4
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168MR CROOKS ON "THE COLONIES." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 22 December 1909, Page 4
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