WHEAT PROTECTION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 2

WHEAT PROTECTION

■BRITISH CONKERV ATI V-.K PARTY’S POLICY

' Clnrtnm Interested ,paflibs are endeavouring to' kill tlie"whbat industry. i.n,New Zealand by the removal of tho .duties; :nsinitrthb r c‘atch-c;ry'pi ‘V.lioapo.r bread with imported fl’rthr” Their,’,argnment, hoWover, bejofigs to By. gpnp days; a.nd'..ifi.,’lid^l’esdly f ;. qnt of --symibathy^willi, jiiqdern 'cpitdition.sj, Engiand.’ for. instance; whiph has liad j f ree trade ,in its \vheat, a nrl f 1 oii r. sub,plies. since : ColVcleii’s ' days, , in, now realising that' chpnp bread is uidt the, dnlv.qimi a-iid'tbat it is..more import-' Aiit -tb iiViyc hVcfeaseti production ajad or bounty-fed 'la.tSg^lriuSt"' ..lie- stbpped ; eitlxoj; by'.'yfolvibition or by . counter- ; aAilijfgf-dutifetd’T"'' r-b -A- ; '■ This ’ A.’lmniai'kable f statPment' ill ,n . country' .'which hits so ' long believed , ih. free trade, so much; so that iio po-li£idiari iprevioulsy""•dared:, to .speak agiainsf it .. ir is’ striking. .evidence ; .of/ll'cpv. the. ’Britplr; ; ..i>uWic : : opinion i;t! In h NS lg Zealand we' already., hayP j 4hak^r::BaldbVin; is;'aiming ;at. : We aT'Q.igrb.wihg • pur. ,dwm : mentsi.uridbf : ’the' protection, o: h sUdingfscaie ' of duties,.,The : opstof_this piltSction BA .Amply.-.'paid ' D - wayS.i : Til' the ; first . playo; the Dorn- j iftibn’s Mniiual;' wheat crop as wort^. iferbkimatpl3V’’B2isoo,ooo • -No .ottmr yielding . anything, like -an eqiny- i 'ayfitlteturn; could he • raised ou - i' ll P; .'sfime land. Oil top of this,, ‘duq,, n- t to ebiVsidbf.ttlfd. •employ Monk pfoyffied ~ land' 'tb-the ; :ex'rnt , 'pt;.Lß(kf,OOO f .per, fiumum. :No sanpApersom cAikmdr}- .1 'cate’ : 'fred Trade’wn -Ayheat and. uour and 1 kill ah'.' industry 'wlnch'as Apch;,a pioducer of wealth nnd proyidei o employment, for the Doffinnoii. * , ,