WHEAT INDUSTRY PROTECTION

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 29 September 1933, Page 8

WHEAT INDUSTRY PROTECTION

POLICY STRONGLY CONDKMNXSD.

STRIKING ANOMALY IN POSITION (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sent. 28. Strung; criticism of the wheat industry protection policy is made by a special committee of the Chamber of Commerce, which has prepared a report for dispatch to the Tariff Commission and all Parliamentarians. ft states, inter alia, that it is a striking; anomaly that this country, to' bolster up a monopoly fostered bv the Government, and to support prices for wheat in New Zealand that are out of all reason compared with the world values, should have to exact from taxpayers under the. Banks Indemnity Act in the vicinity of sixpence per bushel to send our surplus wheat overseas. At the same time our poultry producers cannot get the benefit of cheap wheat to enable them to prosecute their own primary industry and have to put up with the spectacle of overseas poultry producers and other buyers of Now Zealand wheat securing it at prices very substantially below those charged to New Zealand purchasers.