WHEAT DUTIES
LABOUR PARTY DISCUSSION. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The wheat duties were discussed at length by the Labour Party Conference. It was eventually decided to set up a sub-committee with instructions to investigate and rejmrt to the National Executive upon the problems of wheat production, prices, duties, distribution, and also the price 5 of flour and bread to consumers, while ensuring standard wages to farm employees and an adequate return to the wheat farmers.
The committee is also to investigate and report upon primary production and export prices generally, with a view to formulating a policy of stabilisation of incomes of bona fide working farmers engaged in primary production.
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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1931, Page 8
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113WHEAT DUTIES Northern Advocate, 9 April 1931, Page 8
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