WIPE THEM OUT?

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1346, 25 January 1912, Page 4

WIPE THEM OUT?

PREFERENCE TRAIN FREIGHTS. (By TclcErapk—Press Association.) Auckland, January 2i. The Auckland provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union at a meeting to-day discussed the different rates ruling on the New Zealand railways in respect to local and imported articles. The secretary, in a report to the Executive, said that'efforts to have preferential rnilw.-iv freights removed had. not. yet met with success and, though the Minister for Railways had received requests from the Executive and ninny of the branches of the union to ha,ve. them ri* moved, his answers had been in the noB ".\ better on the subject from the Hon. J. A. Millar (Minister for Railways) vaa read. In the course of the letter the Minister stated that, with a view to assistinc the development, of the country and helping to establish, local industries to provide employment for the artisans and other classes of skilled and unskilled labour, the. Government, many yoars ago. nrfontod the. policy of carrying New Z-μ----land natural products and articles locally manufactured at a lower rate than the imported articles. That this course was wise was shown by the extent of the local industries to-day, and the general conditions of the people of New Zealand. It waa not considered that the circumstances were such as to warrant any departure from the policy that had proved „ beneficial in the past, or «"*«*• adoption of the suggestion of the Farmcrs' Union would commend itself to the Be "f£r Section nnd dissatisfaction will the reply hod been "P. re , ssc< Lfe following resolution was earned: "That copies "f the reply sent by the Minister foT Kailwayo «nd'copies of the prefer™, till rules in existence be sent to the Uom ,ion Executive and also to eachprovincial Kxeoutivo nskmg that they cooporate with the Auckland Executive m hSvinu the matter brought forcibly before Parliament when it meets.