EXPORTS TO BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19806, 23 May 1934, Page 10

EXPORTS TO BRITAIN

UNRESTRICTED ENTRY WANTED. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND. May 22. “To-day we are fighting for the unrestricted entry of our produce into Great Britain in return for the lowering of and, finally, the total abolition Ox the protective tariffs on British goods.” said Mr H. O. Mellsop in his presidential address to the Auckland Provincial Conference of the Farmers Union to-day. “These measures will help at least 94 per cent of the population. Either costs must be lowered by the total derating of farmlands, the abolition of tariffs on British goods, the lowering of interest, the total readjustment of mortgages, giving the same consideration to the equity of the mortgagor as to the mortgagee, or our prices must be artificially eased up to the level of our present artificially raised costs.” x.xi' Mellsop also said that there should be an investigation of the high costs of shipping from the North to the South Islands. Foi example, lemons sold in the North ac 6d a dozen, cost 4/- and 5/- a dozen in the South Island, and lemons from Italy were successfully competing with our own.