WHEAT GROWING.
COST OF PRODUCTION. HEAVY TAXATION. (From OciE Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, duly 9. Mr Bitahonor (Waitaki), speaking in the House to-night, referred to tho importance of the wheat grower of Canterbury to New Zealand. The industry, ho said, employed a largo amount of labour, and the railways benefited largely from the freight. Implement manufacturers and coal companies also benefited from the industry. If the wheat were brought in from other countries the country would lose these assets to its prosperity. The wheat growers met with rebuffs at times, but still they carried on He believed they had some of the best wheat land and the best ’"heat farmers in the world, and they as a. class were doing their best fo produce the best from their land. There was possibly not another country in the world that produced so much per man as was produced in New Zealand. It was up to them to produce not only the most but the best they could. The taxation of farmers to-day, however, was a heavy burden, and white it went on increasing so would the cost of production increase.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19528, 10 July 1925, Page 10
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