PROTECTION DEMANDED

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9

PROTECTION DEMANDED

BY BRITISH FARMERS

EITHER BY TARIFF OR SUBSIDY

COMPULSORY LABELLING OF CHEESE URGED

At the annual meeting of the National Farmers’ Union in London, the president urged the need of protection, either by Customs tariff or subsidy.

By Telegraph.—Press Association

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London, January 20.

At the annual general meeting of the National Farmers’ Union in London, the Milk and Dairy Produce Committee reported that a determined effort should be made to secure the compulsory labelling of imported cheese under the provisions of the Merchandise Marks Bill.

The Parliamentary Committee, reporting on the £1,000,000 grant for assisting the marketing of Dominion produce, endorsed the view that the taxpayers’ money should not be. employed to give preference to Dominion produce over Home produce in the British market.

Mr. E. W. Langford, in his presidential address, said that the Government’s policy of securing the maintenance of land in arable cultivation unquestionably involved some form of subsidy. When other industries were accorded statutory protection under the Safeguarding of industries Act, he was not prepared to abandon by one iota their claim to equal consideration.— Reuter.