FEDERAL TARIFF
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RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA PREFERENCE FOR NEW ZEAr LAND. Received This Morning, 1.15 o'clock MELBOURNE, Jan. 18. The Federal Government is prepared to give Canada and New Zealand the benefit of the British preferential duties tariff, provided that Australian goods are allowed to enter those countries at British rates. A Bill will be introduced in the next session to provide for preference to lapply to Canadian goods, but several items will probably be exempted. Mr Tudor declares that if they had a reciprocal treaty there would have been no difficulty about subsidising mail steamers, but it not advis*able to grant a subsidy -to steamers caHdng at New Zealand unless they liad reciprocity; During 1910 Australia exported £IB,OOO worth of goods to Canada. Had the preferential rate been in existence they would have saved £7727. The Canadian exports to Australia during the same period amounted to £110,294. Preference would have saved £3400. / ." I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10532, 19 January 1912, Page 5
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162FEDERAL TARIFF Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10532, 19 January 1912, Page 5
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