A FAVOURED CLASS?

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1931, Page 10

A FAVOURED CLASS?

OPINION OF FARMERS

FERTILISER CONCESSION

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenlnfl Post.")

PALMEKSTON N., This Day.

"By the concession tne Government has made on the price of fertilisers the opinion is getting abroad that the farmers are a favoured class, and I think it should be made known that we have to bear «. large part of the increased primage duty," stated Mr. L. Hammond at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington provincial executive of the Farmers' Union held at Marton.

The meeting was considering the 3 per cent, primage duty which had been imposed recently and details of its effect upon the cost of farming requisites were before members in a statement prepared by Dominion headquarters of the union.

The genera! opinion was, that while the farmer had obtained a refund oil the cost of manures, much of this had been lost in the primage duty, which in some instances would mean increased producing costs. Practically all grass seeds, fencing wire, and agricultural machinery, including milking machines and shearing machines, were bearing this increased taxation.

"It. "ill be more than the 3 per cent primage duty by the time it reaches the farm," remarked a member.

The meetiiiK decided to leave the mat. tcr in the hands of Dominion headl quarter*.

The liujrhy Union ot' Canada, which is in its fourth year of existence, has issued an invitation to the Knulisli Rugby FoQthall Union to send a team to tour Canada in the ]n,"2 season.