FARMERS’ UNION
CARRIAGE OF DOMINION-MADE ARTICLES [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 1. “ You will remember that at the last dominion conference a political committee was set up,” said Mr Poison at an executive meeting ol the Farmers’ Union to-day. “ Lately 1 have been pressed for information as to what has been done, hut I am going to ask you to bear with the committee for just a little while longer. There are certain matters which I desire to discuss with the committee.”
The policy of the Government in regard to giving preference to New Zealand articles carried on the railways ns against imported articles was set out in a long letter from Air Coates. Inter alia, he pointed out that New Zealand-made articles usually represent the carriage of both the raw material and the manufactured product, and for greater distances than imported articles. Many businesses and industries had been built up on the present order of things, and serious complications would immediately follow and drastic alterations. There would also be a loss of £700,000 in revenue, and this would have to be made up from New Zealand-made goods.
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Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 6
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