LABOUR FAVOURS BOUNTY ON WHEAT GROWING.
“Why should the wheat-grower be protected any more than the potato or onion-grower?” was a question put to Mr W. Lee Martin, Labour meml>er for Raglan, at a meeting in Marshland last evening. Mr Martin said that the Labour Party was not bound to the sliding scale for wheat but favoured a bounty. Up to the present he had voted against the sliding scale, holding that all growers should be subsidised, but he was investigating the position with regard to the wheat question. Every member had been given a free hand regarding the vote on the sliding scale, but the attitude of the party on the question would be published after a committee had made investigations. “The Labour Party is neither protectionist nor free-trade,” said Mr Martin to another question. It believed in encouraging the manufacture of goods that could be made by local firms economical!)*.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 143, 18 June 1931, Page 1
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