HELP TO FARMERS
Manufacturers’ Statement £13,000,000 ANNUALLY IS COST SUBSIDIES AND OTHER RELIEF (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The New, Zealand Manufacturers' Federation placed before the Government to-day a statement showing the cost of subsidies and concessions to farming industries for free transport of lime, subsidised transport of fertlisers, herd-testing subsidy, subsidy on superphosphates, Massey College, rabbit boards, compensation for condemned stock, Agricultural Department salaries, free and subsidised farm labour through the Unemployment Fund, artificially high exchange, increased parity prices in New Zealand through the British tariff, wheat duty, exemption of farming requisites from customs and also from sales tax and exemption from income tax of farms (•>" under £3OOO unimproved value. The fact, appears that farm industries are being supported by the coniinunity to the extent of not less than £12,000,000 per annum.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 64, 9 March 1933, Page 5
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