Tobacco Prices.
To the Editor. Dear Sir,—ln answer to “Old Worker” re the price of tobacco, I think that instead of crying out about the Budget we ought to congratulate ourselves on having a Prime Minister (New Zealand born) who has the moral courage to face a difficult situation and save New Zealand from going to “the pack” before it is too late. If “Old Worker” complains so bitterly about the rise in tobacco, he for one could very w’ell go without or smoke less. If he had not been in the habit of going to the “cut-rate” stores for his supply of tobacco, w’here smokes are s'old at cost, and in some instances below cost, merely as a decoy to sell cheap foreign-labour goods, there would have been no necessity for the Government to increase the tax on tobacco to such an extent. If -the same stores would use their decoy to boom New Zealand made goods unemployment would not be so . prevalent and the money would be kept in the country helping our own industries and employing our own people.—l am, etc., NEW ZEALAND BORN.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19133, 28 July 1930, Page 8
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