BUTTER-FAT LEVY.
STRONG OBJECTIONS BY DATRY FARMERS. SUGGESTED THAT DIFFERENCE BE TAKEN FROM CONSOLIDATED FUND. (Special to tbe Herald.) WELLINGTON, last night. A dozen members of Parliament from dairy districts met the Hons. Allen, Mac Donald, Myers, Russell, and McNab to-day to protest ajjainst the butterfat levy, which the deputation described as a class tax, bearing hardly on a hardworking section of the community. They suggested that the difference between the local price and export price be paid out of the consolidated fund. Mr. Allen described this as impracticable, as the question had to be settled urgently. It was impossible to consult Parliament, without which taxation could not be levied.
Mr. Mac Donald reminded^ the deputation, that dairymen were getting record prices, m spite of the deduction. The export of every New Zealand product was restricted, except butter, which had ■an unrestricted market. If the Government had bought the output at the beo-inning of the season at Is 2d, as some suggested, what would the dairy farmers say now they could get 16.17 d per pound for export?
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14159, 29 November 1916, Page 3
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178BUTTER-FAT LEVY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14159, 29 November 1916, Page 3
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