TAXATION OF FOODS
AVOIDANCE OF HIGHER PRICES.
(AUSTRAI lAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLS ASSOCIATION.)'
(Received 15th October, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 14th October. Mr. Basil Peto, M.P., writes to the Press suggesting a method by'which the claims of both British and Dominion agriculture will benefit without forcing up food prices. He suggests the removal of the present sugar and tea duties, and replacing them with a tax yielding the same revenue on foreign bacon, cheese, butter, poultry/and eggs, with substantial preference to the Dominions., He points out that on, the ay-
eragc conditions are moat favourable to dairy and stock farming, which employ more labour than cereal-growing. Such a transference of the existing food taxes to other commodities would not increase the general cost of food.
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Evening Post, Volume 91, Issue 91, 15 October 1923, Page 8
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123TAXATION OF FOODS Evening Post, Volume 91, Issue 91, 15 October 1923, Page 8
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