IMPERIAL TBADE.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrighi London, July 30.
A meeting at St. James’ Hall protested that the taxation of food was a great national danger, Mr Asquith said Mr Chamberlain’s proposal meant the immediate addition of eight millions to the bread bill of England. The Sugar Convention was ratified (by 224 against 144. Mr Chamberlain said the abolition of bounties would ensure the greatest stability of the sugar industry. He ridiculed the idea that it would increase the cost. It was a tardy act of justice to tho colonies. Ho resented Mr Winston Churchill’s taunt that he cared sixfold more for the colonies than for the Motherland. He insisted on the j right to remedy palpable injustice, whether it existed in a colony or in the United Kingdom.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 957, 1 August 1903, Page 4
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129IMPERIAL TBADE. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 957, 1 August 1903, Page 4
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