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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 23, 22 October 1907, Page 4

PAUSE AND CONSIDER THE FLOUR & WHEAT SLIDING-. "DUTY. SCALE.

How is this going to bo worked? The quotations for Flour and Wheat are always ut seaboard ports, where wheat is shipped, i.e., in wheat-growing countries. For instance, Lytteiton, Timaru, and Oamaru are the ports whero wheat is shipped, hence New Zealand's quotations for Wheat 'and Flour are given at those ports. • If the Sliding Scale Duty Bill becomes law, and the duty is removed when Flour exceeds J6ll per ton, and assuming Wheat is just selling at a price to clear the miller from loss, what about the North • Island Mills, which draw their Wheat Supplies from the South, and require 20s. per ton more to cover freight and other expenses? And the same applies to Southern Flour. Would the duty on Flour and Wheat be removed for the North Island? If so, would not the North Island soon become an Australian freehold in its time of plenty, and the Southern \ Wheat-grower become a thing if the past? , Assuming the farmers refused to sell Wheat at the Government price for Flour, by remaining off the market for two or three months, with advancing markets throughout the world as at present, is there any law. that could compel them to sell Wheat at the Government's price for Flour? The Commonwealth of Australia,, before the prospective drought, was seriously considering the necessity of offering a bonus to encourage the exportation of Flour to open up its immense areas for Wheat-growing. ' Tho Commonwealth's'duties on Wheat and Flour are 50s. per ton, against New Zealand's 20s. per ton. ' .... Tho Australian export price for Flour is always from 10s. to 155.. per ton below its local price, and if further encouraged hy n bonus, what would become of the Wheatgrowing and Milling industry of little' New Zealand,, with its numerous dependencies, and would not the cessation of those industries' seriously affect our Railway rovenue? 'i So let us-pause- and consider before" going iri for hasty legislation to ruin "God's Own Country," which lias also had V a serious drought South—the first for 13 years—which" alone cost Oamaru .£230,000 (vide Southern papers). ,

THE "DAYLIGHT." ACETYLENE GAS ' ■/ PLANT. ■ i .., mHE Best, Cheapest,' and Safest Light. Satisfaction Guaranteed with each . .Installation. BESTCARBIDE at.. Lowest Prices.' HEAT, LIGHT, AND SUPPLIES 'C 0.,. ■ 19 GH.UZNEE STREET,' WELLINGTON. • " ',"' ' ■ ' ,■■ ai $ BIRTHS, MARRIACES. AND DEATHS. <;/ " ' / DEATH. .. GORDON.—On-October 20, 1907, at_Taita, Jessie Adora, third daughter of Adani and Olivo .Gordon, aged 1 16 months'. , "Safe in tho Arms of Jesus." ' FUNERAL NOTICES. '. . FUNERAL NOTICE. — THE FRIENDS \of Olive and Adam' Gordon are respectfully invited to ; attend the Funeral of tuoir late beloved daughter, Jessie Adora, ' which will leave tho residence of tho' above, at Taita, at' 3 p.m. TO-DAY (Tuesday) for tho Taita C'euiotery. ,H. SMITH, • Undertaker, N 5411 ■ • ; Peel Street,, Potono.