WHEAT FOR STOCK
DEMAND BY PQULTRYMEN.
FREE import or low duty.
RESOLUTION AT CONFERENCE. (Per .Press Association). AUCKLAND, This Day. The New Zealand Poultry Association unanimously carried a resolution asking the Government to allow the free importation of all food for stock purposes, now subject to duty, or, alternatively, that the maximum on wheat lor. stock purposes should not exceed a shilling a bushel. The mover contended that the present duty was composed when the world’s parity was approximately 5s Gd.;'•To-day, with the’ parity about 2s ftd, the original duty ; represented 50 per cent. Surely a- shilling duty on a product worth-2s 6d was reasonable.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 134, 19 March 1931, Page 6
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105WHEAT FOR STOCK Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 134, 19 March 1931, Page 6
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