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MR. HARRIS ADVOCATES PROTECTION. Mr. A. Harris, Independent Beform candidate for Waitcmata, at Devonport last evening, said it was ridiculous and uneconomic for us to send away our raw materials, such as wool, hides, and flax, and then have to pay import duty on them when they came back as manufactured articles. Mr. Harris defended the railway policy of the Reform Government, pointing out that £284,000 was transferred to the renewal and reserve account last year, ho that the £2»l,000 excess of expenditure over income was merely a "book." loss. The railways paid nowadays. M A Voice: Only in the North Island. ) Mr. Harris: Yes, but that is because thq old liberal Government \mt lines. ™? "very little gully in the South Island. T. here were 30 branch lines in course of eonatrttetion when Beform came into ||fe power. Kow, there are five.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 12
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