TOBACCO TAX
Si r ,—The reduction of Is a pound on the former preference granted to the New Zealand-grown leaf tobacco on the ground that "the tobacco-growing industry is at present non-economic, and the possibility of the extension of the industry would appear to be limited," is absolutely indefensible. It may be that from a strictly revenue-producing point of view the tobacco-growing industry is at present non-economic, but how, one may ask, is it ever to become economic, or survive at all, if crushed out at its birth? Or again, how many of our young and struggling protected industries are as yet economic? The future hope of New Zealand depends to a very great extent upon its becoming as self-contained and self-support-ing as possible, and 1 believe that, with more reasonable protection, both our tobacco-growing and other infant industries can be made to pay. Wm. F. Jajiieson.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21861, 25 July 1934, Page 15
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