INCREASED TARIFFS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 16

INCREASED TARIFFS

OPPOSITION BY FARMERS A MEETING OF PROTEST • i Methods of retaliation for increases in tariffs on British goods will be discussed at n meeting of farmers of East Tamaki, to be held in the East Tamaki Hall on Monday night. The speakers will represent the Bureau of Importers and representatives of farmers. Visitors from any interested organisation are invited. Remits to be tabled are as follows: "That this meeting, while deploring the suggested boycott of New Zealand produce by operatives in certain English districts, assures the operatives that a vast number of Dominion farmers are constantly agitating for a reduction in trade restrictions *'and customs tariffs on the basis of reciprocal trade agreements favouring Great Britain, and suggests co-operation with an organised movement in Britain directed toward achieving this objective; and that this meeting recommends the Farmers' Union to co-operate in forming, a leaguo for freer trade to educate public opinion in directing political efforts toward reducing tariffs and trade restrictions in accordance with principles of reciprocal trade." The following general remit also will be tabled: "That this meeting suggests that farmers should unite to boycott any goods manufactured under duty, amounts to giving a monopoly to New Zealand industry against British manufactured goods, believing that a high standard of living in this country depends on the freest possible exchange of primary products for the manufactured goods of other countries."