DUTY ON TOBACCO
HINT OF INCREASE SEEN IN MINISTER’S LETTER . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. That the Government was considering a further impost on tobacco was the opinion expressed by a Wellington tobacco merchant yesterday when shown a letter to the New Zealand Tobacco Growers’ Federation from the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Sullivan. The Minister’s letter, which deals principally with the proposed “long range plan” for the industry, states: “The means by which the plan which has been submitted to the Government can be implemented involves policy discussions of some magnitude and their adoption would necessitate legislative action affecting producers, manufacturers, the Government, and consumers. It will not be possible to finalise these decisions till after the return of the hon Mr Nash, but rather than delay the whole matter till then, I arranged with manufacturers for the prices fixed in terms of the plan to be paid from the commencement of the 1939 buying season on the understanding that they would be recouped to the extent of the additional 2Jd a lb by some means to be decided upon later.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1939, Page 4
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