PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
REQUEST BY* WOOL-GROWERS. MATTER OF A BOUNTY. REPLY BY PRIME MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. Before the wool sales opened last night, representations were made to the brokers by clients on the subject of a possible bounty to the farmers, and as a result the Auckland woolbrokers’ organisation telegraphed the Prime Minister asking for an assurance that tlie provisions of bounty scheme will be retrospective, and that sellers at this sale will not lie excluded merely by reason of the fact that they had sold their wool.
A reply received staled: "The question of assisting the primary producers in Iheir dillTeullies is receiving Ihe considers!inn of the Government, hut the form of relief, if it is decided (hat any relief can he afforded, has no) yet been sell led. and may not in ;i,iv case make provision for the .system of a bounty.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18808, 2 December 1932, Page 7
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