MR SCULLIN CALLS VINTNERS 7 “ BLUFF.”
“WE ARE GOVERNING THIS COUNTRY,” HE DECLARES.
.United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received March 22, 9.35 a.m.) CANBERRA, March 22. The Prime Minister, referring to the threat of the wine manufacturers to
close down their works owing to the increased excise duty on fortified spirit for wine, said that he regarded it as pure bluff. He added: “We are governing this country, not they, and I would remind them that we have the power to take any necdfesary action for the protection of the growers.” He continued: “Those shouting loudest have been caught with large quantities of fortified wine on hand, owing to their having taken undue advantage of the concessions granted up to the present.” MANUFACTURERS WILL CLOSE DOWN FACTORIES (Received March 22, 11.30 a.m.) ADELAIDE, March 22. Following Mr Scullin’s statement iAJge wine manufacturers, here announced that they would be closing down immediately, rejecting from 12,000 to 14,000 tons of grapes, which will be left on the growers’ hands, and also causing unemployment among the grape jpickers.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19026, 22 March 1930, Page 1
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