ASSISTANCE TO FARMERS
COSTINC £12,800,000 ANNUALLY
SUBSIDIES AND OTHER RELIEF
Wellington, March 8. The New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation placed before the Government to-day a statement showing the cost of subsidies and concessions to farming industries for free transport of lime, subsidised transport of fertilisers, herd-testing subsidy, subsidy on superphosphates, Massey College, rabbit boards, compensation for condemned stock, Agricultural Department salar,e«, free and subsidised farm labour through the Unemployment Fund, artificially high exchange, increased parity prices in New Zealand through the British tariff, wheat duty, exemption of farming requisites from Customs and also from sales tax and exemption from income tax of farms of under £3OOO unimproved value. The fact appears that farm industries are being supported by the community to Hie extent of not leas than £12,000,000 per annum.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 8
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