A.—s

354

Sir JOSEPH WARD : What occurs to me is that if ever we get preference established it will be on three or four articles at first, and, if we had an overriding surtax I am afraid it would give grounds for those opposed to it to say : " As you have a surtax you do not want preference." Adjourned to Monday next at 10.30 o'clock.

Imperial Surtax on Foreign Imports.

Tenth Day. 2 May 1907