TAX ON MEAT.
CONSERVATIVES IN FAVOUR.
(Received 12 noon.)
LONDON, October 7.
More than 1700 delegates to the national Conservative Conference unanimously passed a resolution in favour of a tax on foreign imported meat in order to help British farmers.
The conference also passed a resolution deprecating the return to the gold standard and urging the Government to consult the Dominions with a view to stabilising the purchasing power of money within the Empire on the basis of the index scale of wholesale commodity prices. STATE-OWNED FARMS. LABOUR PARTY'S ADVOCACY. LONDON, October 7. At the conference of the_ Labour party at Leicester a resolution was carried in favour of the national ownership of farm lands, public farming corporations, co-operative cultivation with' boards to control the prices of imports. The resolution declared that the aim must be to achieve greater home production of food, more employment on the -land with better wages and conditions, and to see that producers obtained steady and regular prices by controlling imports.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 239, 8 October 1932, Page 9
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