Second Edition.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1910, Page 3

Second Edition.

IMPORTATION OF FARMING IMPLEMENTS. * [PKR PREBS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON', This Day. Tho question of the free importation. of agriculutral implements in rc^laition to their increased cost, was discussed at the Fanners' Umion Conference to-day. Several! .speakers declared that the farming community paid twenty par cent more for agricultural implements than when they were not on Ithe free list. It was also asserted that if the Act were repealed fanners could got tboii implements at less than twenty p:>r cenlt lower than to-day. On the at her hand it was stated t.hnb there would he a danger of local rnnnufactures being crushe dout if 'the Aot wore repealed. A motion wns eventually carried to the efledt that tho Agricultural Implements Imnortaitiron fiul Sales Act lie repealed.