REFORM “INDICTED”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 493, 24 October 1928, Page 11

REFORM “INDICTED”

MR. GREVILLE AT MILFORD > An all-round indictment of the Reform Government was the theme of Mr. Greville’s address to some 200 electors at the Picturedrome, Alilford, last evening. Air. A. C. Prentice presided. In place of the existing duty of approximately £5 a ton on Canadian and Australian flour, the United Party would undertake to have it reduced to not more than 30s. Mr. Greville asserted that this particular duty was retained merely because members of the Government feared that many South Island seats would be lost to Reform if any reduction was proposed. Tho high profits made possible by the retention of the high flour duty was going, not into the pockets of wheatgrowers, but into those of a Southern flour combine. Figures were quoted indicating that customs duties were being loaded on the man in the street in order that squatters could be relieved or released. The candidate stated that his party intended, if returned, to make drastic changes in the incidence of taxation. Air. Greville stated his previouslyannounced pledge to vote under all circumstances to put the present Government out of office did not necessarily mean that he would vote to put Labour in. Several questions were answered, and a vote of thanks and confidence accorded the candidate.