COST OF LIVING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 10, 9 December 1937, Page 11

COST OF LIVING.

FARMERS CONCERNED.

WELLINGTON, Dec. 8,

Further increases in the cost ot living were fully discussed by the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to-dav. Ft was recognised that local manufacturers had had costs increased by the 40-hour week and other recent legislation so that they found it impossible to compete with Australian and British manufacturers. An increase in the tariff would increase prices of the locally produced articles and also of the imported goods, and would further seriously imperil the sale of New-: Zealand produce.in Great Britain. It was recognised that it was impossible lor the Government to discriminate against Australian importations without hitting British manufacturers, and alreaciy there was evidence of reactions at Home against New Zealand produce. , . The following resolution was adopted and will he forwarded to the Prime Minister: “That the New Zealand Farmers’ Union makes the strongest protest against any increase in the Customs tariff or any other method of protecting New Zealand industries which would inevitably result in an increase in the cost 01 living m New Zealand and the prejudicing ot the sale of New Zealand produce in the United Kingdom.”