DAIRY PRODUCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 9

DAIRY PRODUCE

AUSTRALIAN IMPORTS

TARIFF BOARD INQUIRY

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Mr t, i a -SrDNBr, Thi, Day. Mr.Kpland Green, a member Df Pw hameat, giving evidence at the Tariff Board inquiry into the application for an increase in the duties on dairy nroduco imported into Australia, said that an increage in the present riuty or^d per 1b to 6$ bh New Zealand butter, and m the general tariff to 7d per7lo' would still give preference to -fie*.'. Zealand imports and allow a better matgin of prcfit for the Australian Mry< man. .: Mr.\ Green' declared that - the prices received tot: dairy prodncie- i» the Tweed district to-day, were the aarne as 1915, yet production edsts had im. v creased:'/ -.:;.. ■.' '. .: :.• ' ■■■..'•■-.. " ■ The inquiry was adjourned. ;