DUTY ON WHEAT.
MR FORBES INVESTIGATING. Electric- Telegraph—Press Assoc ation CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An intimation that lie would make a full statement regarding the sliding scale of duties on wheat and flour during the shoit session o-f Parliament next month was given by the Prime Minister. “No doubt,’’ lie said, ‘with the general fall in prices of the commodities all round, and reductions in costs, there will have to be some reduction., not only in the prices of wheat, but in the milling a'n.d baking industry as well.” Mr Forbes said that already lie had set in. train an investigation of the wheat and flour oos’tion bv the Department of Industries, and Commerce and the Customs Department, and he hoped shortly to have the whole* of the facts before him.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11683, 23 February 1931, Page 3
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