DUTY ON FOODSTUFFS
The Farmers’ Union Conference at Whangarei carried the following remit: “That this conference is opposed to duties and embargoes on foodstuffs and considers that any encouragement to grow cereals should be in the form of subsidies.”
Captain Colbeck and Mr. Ross brought forward the remit, which evoked much discussion.
The mover said that the imposing of duties on foodstuffs was iniquitous and altogether false economy. Why should the Southern wheat-grower profit at the expense of the Northern poultry-farmer? New Zealand was not a wheat-growing country on account of its climate, so why try to force it by means of duties and embargoes?
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 May 1927, Page 11
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105DUTY ON FOODSTUFFS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 May 1927, Page 11
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