MR HALL IN DEFENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 117, 16 November 1908, Page 5

MR HALL IN DEFENCE.

(To tho Editor.) Sir. — Will you kindly allow me space for a line or two. I never said I would vote to tako the duty off potatoes. What I said was : — I would vote to tako tho duty off when they were dear. In the year 1907, Hansard page 456, Mr Hall asked tho Minister for Customs whether he will remit the duties on imported edible potatoes wholly or in part, and remit call the duties on seed potatoes. The result was that Sir Joseph Ward brought in a Bill to remit the duties when the prices for flour reached £11 per ton, and potatoes were treated in the same way, and in doing this I carried out my promise. Wo cannot allow any of our products, butter, cheese, timber, or potatoes, to be swamped by outside people, It would ruin the farmer, he would give up growing and producing, and that would prove a oalamity to the colony. — I am, etc., CHAS. HALL. [A»yt.3