DAIRY FARMERS' TAXES
Sir, —We have been assured by the Prime Minister and his colleagues that workers of this country are adequately paid, and yet the dairy farmers are asked to subsidise the butter for the whole of the population of New Zealand. Tradesmen are receiving from £6 to £lO per week for a 40 to 44-hour week, and there are thousands in this country whose incomes are from £SOO to £SOOO per annum, and yet every pound of butter that is~ bought the dairy farmer subsidises from Id to 2d per pound. With the burdens that the farmer has to carry, in addition to the usual taxation, such as shortage of labour and diseases, it is absolutely unjust to ask him to subsidise the local butter market. If the Government wishes to sell cheap butter in New Zealand, the burden should fall on the whole of the country, not on one portion. W. H. Thompson.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23058, 8 June 1938, Page 17
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