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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143763, 11 April 1912, Page 1

HAWKE’S GREAT ANNUAL CLEARING SALE IS A . . . TREMENDOUS SUCCESS. 2 d. in the 1 1- DISCOUNT OFF. ALL GOODS. C. O. HAWKE NEW PLYMOUTH & INGLEWOOD.

(Qitizens and g butlers. PLEASE COMPARE THE TWO CUSTOMS TARIFFS AND REFLECT UPON THEIR INEQUALITY. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH TARIFF. (This door is practically closed to N.Z.) Flour per cental 2s 6d Oatmeal and rolled oats, id per lb. equals £i 13s 4d per ton Bran and sharps per cental Is Potatoes - per cwt. Is Butter’and oboes© per lb. 3d Wheat per cental Is 6d Oats . per cental Is 6d NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. (About 150 per cent, lower than Australia. Is not our door now wide open to Australia?) Flour per cental Is Oatmeal and rolled oats, in bulk... per cental It Rolled oate, in packets ... 20 per cent., equal to id per lb Bran and sharps per cental la Potatoes per cwt. Is Butter, 20 per cent., equal to 2d per lb Cheese, 20 per cent., equal to Id per lb Wheat per cental 9d Oats per cental 9d IF THESE DUTIES ARE REMOVED, HOW WOULD THE N.Z. FARMER FARE? N.B. —Mr. Hogg and other Single Tax. enthusiasts do not suggest the removal of the duties on the raw materials (wheat, oats, etc.). It is obvious they are “running with the hare and hunting with the hounds,” their object being to kill tho grain-growing and milling industries with their numerous adjuncts, such as Southern railways, etc., and, naturally, the shrinkage would have to be met by increasing the Northern railages, etc. Their theory is one tax on the land only and free trade. When this was given birth to, the Asiatic problem was unhatched. What encouragement would thero.be to go on the land unless tho products of the soil are protected, on the same lines as our rivals? How would our town industries thrive under such stupidity? Could they compete against tho sweated surplusages of the world, unless amply protected ? And svon now it is with a struggle they exist. It is obvious the Single Tax theory is only one tax on the land, and if given effect to would abolish the Alien Poll Tax, and bring us down to tbe Asiatic level. —Yours truly, CHAMPION’S COMMON-SENSE. Jaa. Sanderson.! PH. Victor S. Griffiths. | F.N.Z.I.A. SANDERSON & GRIFFITHS, ARCHITECTS. Office:—KlNG’S BUILDINGS, oarner Devon and Brougham Streets, New Plymouth.