TARIFFS AND TAXES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21089, 15 July 1938, Page 8

TARIFFS AND TAXES

OPINION OF FARMERS By Telegraph—Pies, Association WELLINGTON, July 14. A resolution embodying several remits on tariffs and taxation was carried by the Farmers’ Union setting out that while the conference was impressed with the need for putting the primary and secondary industries in a sound economic position, it reaffirmed its previous policy of opposition to tariffs as a means to that end, as that wou’d inevitably result in increased costs The conference believed that the remedy lay in a sound economic diagnosis to be followed by appropriate corrective action. Accordingly the conference asked for an authoritative and impartial economic survey which would reveal the disabilities that existed as affecting different industries as set out in yesterday’s resolution calling tor a statistical review conducted by a Fellow of the Royal Society of Statisticians with actuarial qualifications. A resolution calling on the Government to abolish the unemployment levy and sales tax was carried, and great disapproval was expressed at the prospect of any addition to the already too heavy burden of taxation. A reaffirmation of the retention of the present stock embargo was supported.