WHEAT AND FLOUR DUTIES
RELATION TO ECONOMY MEASURES. (From Can Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, April 1. An effort to link the sliding scale of duties on wheat and flour with the Arbitration Court’s power to vary awards was nullified in the House of Representatives this evening, when an amendment to the Finance Bill moved on behalf of Mr C. A. Wilkinson (Egraont) to provide that the second part of the Bill should not operate until a month after the removal of the import duties on wheat and flour was ruled out of order on the ground that it was foreign to the Bill and could bo embraced only in a Customs amendment. The Prime Minister (Mr G. VV. Forbes) is expected shortly to make a statement covering the Government’s attitude on the wheat duties, but this will be withheld until the result achieved by the first of the economy measures is apparent, and a reasonably accurate estimate can be secured of the revenue required.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 12
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