WHEAT GROWING.
, GOVERNMENT’S POLICY. In the course of a speech at the I Town Hall this week, Mr Massey indicated what would be a new policy of the Government for the encouragement of wheat-growing in this country. The growers have been asking for an increase in the price of wheat next year to 6s. a bushed. The proposal suggested by Mr Massey was that instead of fixing a price the import duty on wheat must be. raised to the level of the Commonwealth tax. Mr Massey argues that if this were done, the New Zealand growers could be certain of a payable price without the risk that lias always threatened him hitherto of dumping from Australia. At present the New Zealand ; growqr gets very little protection while the Commonwealth wheat farmer i is heavily protected. The Australian '■ duty is £2/10/- per ton. s
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1918, Page 3
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143WHEAT GROWING. Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1918, Page 3
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