THE AMERICAN FARMER.
HANDICAPPED BY TARIFFS. WELLINGTON, January 17. A-burning question in America, stated Mr T. O. Bishop (secretary. of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation), who returned to Wellington to-day afteika visit to the United States of America, is the effert on the farming industry of the high protective tariffs built up around the manufacturing industries. Farmers are suffering very, acutely from the effect of the high wages paid to -city ■workers and the consequent dearth of suitable farm labour. A special commission representtive of the Senate has been appointed to investigate farmers’ problems. To a very much smaller degree we, in New Zealand, are suffering in the same way, and the findings of the American commission will, no doubt, prove to be of interest to students of economics in the Dominion. . t - •
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Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 12
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133THE AMERICAN FARMER. Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 12
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