FARMERS’ POLICY
4 FREE TRADE OR PROTECTION? BY Telegraph.—press at’Sociation. Feilding, February 10. At a meeting ,of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union to-day, the union’s free-trade plank was mentioned by Mr. D. D. McLean (Waimariiio), who considered that it should, be looked into and the fact ascertained whether or not greater protection might be extended for such commodities as can bo profitably manufactured iu the Dominion. Mr. McLean advanced the opinion that such protection would give eyery opportunity for creating massed production. “It seems that we must do all we can to support our secondary industries,” continued Mr. McLean. “We seem to have reached the limit of expansion on the land. Annual unemployment is rife and absentee labour is a" greater curse than absentee landlords.” Mr. McLean’s motion that the union’s free-trade plank be investigated with the object of giving greater protection to the secondary industries, as suggested, was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 3
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153FARMERS’ POLICY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 3
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