Fanners Object to Increased Tariffs

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 4

Fanners Object to Increased Tariffs

SUGGESTED BOYCOTT OF PROTECTED GOODS Per Press Assoclal.otL AUCKLAND, Last Night.

Strong exception to the additional tariff recently imposed by the Government on imports front Great Britain was taken by speakers at a meeting of the *East Tamaki branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. It was decided to convene a meeting of all farmers in the district to be held on April 11 to decide what measures could be taken in retaliation by the farmer.

A suggestion was advanced that farmers should combine to boycott any New Zealand goods manufactured under protective tariffs which amounted to the establishment of a monopoly against British industry. They were also described as a direct penalty against the producers who while forced to sell their commodities on the open markets of the world were compelled to purchase their requirements on a highly-protected market. The opinion was expressed that tariffs by increasing the cost of living penalised other sections of the community.