It is usual to hear complaints like this when the market is dull, but there seems to: be full justification for them in the' present instance. Franco lias not delayed long in taking retaliatory action to- Australia’s 'imposition of ■ increased duties on French spirits and wines. The “Journal Official” publishes a decree raising the French import duties on Australian butter and wheat, practically trebling the previous rates. Not a great amount of ’Australian wheat has been imported into France recently, as the harvests have been good, but there are occasional . imports of fair-sized parcels of butter which the new duties will make, impossible in future.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1930, Page 3
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