TRADE COMMISSION
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(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
TERMS OF PREFERENCE TARIFF LAWS EXCLUDED. (Received Last Nighty 5.5 o'clock.) The Imperial Trade .Commission has decided that the terms of reference preclude an inquiry into the effects of Tariff laws. The decision on this point was not unanimous. When the Commission was set up, the opinion was expressed in many quarters that unless the fiscal question were enquired into the work of the Commission would be 'incomplete. Evidently, ihowever, the order of preference procludes such an (enquiry. . HON. J. R. SINCLAIR APPOINTED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night The appointment is anmouneed of the Hon,. John Robert 1 Sinclair, M.L.C., as New Zealand's repr<2«.mta/tive cat ildie Imperial Trade 'CorT?nn.> sion, in the place l of Sir Joseph Ward who resigned. Mir Sinclair is at ;.rrsent in England. (The Hen,. J. R. Ssnclaiir is *;istytwo years of 'age, ®nd lias been a member of the Legislative Com«ell for a number of years. He was \a>t the Dtinedim "Boys' High School, j and in 1875 became a> barrister rind j solictior of thie Supreme Court mi i .'New Zealand.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10667, 24 June 1912, Page 5
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189TRADE COMMISSION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10667, 24 June 1912, Page 5
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