REMOVAL OF WHEAT DUTIES WOULD RUIN SOUTHERN FARMERS.
(Special to the “Star.”) WELLINGTON, July 3. “Quite a number of us came down from the north pledged to see the wheat duties removed,” confessed Mr G. C. Munns (Roskill) in the House to-night. “Pledged?” queried Mr M’Combs (Lyttelton) in a startled tone. Roskill's member reassuringly added that the pledge was for removal or reduction. Since he had been in Wellington he had made inquiries into the whole position, and he had come to realise that his policy could not be immediately enforced, because this would mean bankruptcy for the southern farmer. Mr Samuel (Thames) : You are shifting your ground. Mr Munns expressed approval of the Government’s plan to have the whole matter investigated by a select committee. He and his colleagues wanted to see a free breakfast table in the North. “But we are not going to bank-
rupt. a number of Southern farmers. We are not looking for it that wav," he concluded.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18803, 4 July 1929, Page 16
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