THE PROTECTION CONFERENCE.
QUESTIONS TO PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES. 1 ■■;,;.• (BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, this day. TJhs Probection Conference has formulated . tbis series of questions to the Parliamentary candidates:—■ |i|;-Are you in favour of, and would you support, a Customs tariff sufficient to enable manufacturers to compete with the long hours, cheap labour, low interest on capital countries, for the purpose of aefiifiting in the establishing of local industries ?~: ..•'•,. ;"; IJThab aa that existing Customs tariff i|||unds with glaring anomalies, will you l||in favour of it undergoing a thorough rejrMon, and that in all future compilations , arliet v of articles checked for the purposes rajjjbeVenue should be kept quite distinct .ffijn those levied to project New Zealand. ? ' . . .- ' . ':■ i. ■■.■.'■'•'■■■' ■". ''. endeavour to have articlos ■' am lately eseentjial m the manufacture of ixe" Zealand goodu, and which the colony' tip [ does not produce, allowed to come in (fl free as raw material ? ■ : M ill you endeavour to have all imported mi ifacfcured goods or fabrics produced h'ffl taxed to that degree as would enable 2m Zealand producers to hold their own : jM ist foreigners ? || the property tax now stands, it) is a 'jH j drawback to. the industries already eJ lished and interferes with other industry being started. Would you be in fa| r of its being abolished and substituting ime other lees objectionable tax 2
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 174, 25 July 1890, Page 3
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