AMERICAN CARS
MEMBER SUGGESTS BIG DUTY “STARVING OUR INDUSTRIES” (THE SUX'S Parliamentary Reporter.) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Wednes. Regret that the Minister of Finance, Sir Joseph Ward, had not put a crushing duty on American motor-cars was expressed in the House today by Mr. E. F. Healey (Wairau) in his Budget speech. Mr. Healey said it was rather alarming to hear some members express views tor free trade when New Zealand's own industries were starving. America placed prohibitive duties on Dominion goods, but American goods were allowed to come into the Dominion and kill our industries. Many of the firms in America went into Canada to manufacture motorcars and implements, he said, and represented them to be of British manufacture because they were made under the British flag. It was questionable whether there was anything in the United States to equal the New Zealand-made motor bodies on the cars used by Ministers of the Crown. Agricultural implements made in America were sold in New Zealand at “sewing machine terms/’ and New Zealand manufacturers could not compete.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 7
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174AMERICAN CARS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 7
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