PROTEST BY FARMERS
Manufacturers’ Protection (New Zealand Pres* Association; WELLINGTON, July 21. Federated Farmers decided today to protest “most vigorously and continuously" against the excessive protection erf manufacturing industries. The conference agreed to plead with the Government to adopt economic policies to promote the highest possible living standards. Instead of continuing to shelter uneconomic industries, the existence of which' must reduce those standards.
Another resolution said the Government’s proposed establishment of a cotton industry in New Zealand would be detrimental to the country generally and could mean that those who supplied the Dominion with cotton goods might not be able to buy our produce if this market was removed. V
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 14
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