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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 53, 15 March 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! Please Compare THE Two Customs Tariffs AND Reflect Upon Their Inequality. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH TARIFF. {This door is practically closed m New Zealand.) flour » pel , ecu till, 'Js. Gd. Oatmeal and Rolled Oats ... Jd per lb. (Equals £4 13s. 4d. per ton) Bran and Sharps per cental, Is. Potatoes per cwt, Is. Butter and Cheese per lb., 3d. Wheat per cental, ].s. 6d. Outs n per cental, \i. 6d. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. (Alxnit 150 per cent, lower than Australia, is not our door wide open to Australia?) Flour per cental, Is. Oatmeal and Rolled Oats in bulk per cental, Is. Itollod Oats, iv packets ... 20 per cent. (Equal to i<l. per lb.) Rran and Sharps per cental. Is. Potatoes per cwt., Is. Butter '20 per cent. (Equal to 2d. per lb.) Clivcse -0 [>>t cent. (Equal to Id. per lb.) Wheat -. per cental, Od. Oats , per cental, I'd. if these Duties aro removed, how would the New Zealand farmer fare? N.B.—Mr. Hogg and other Single fax enthusiasts do not suggest the removal of the duties on the raw materials (wheat, oats, etc.). It is obvious they aro "running with tho hare and hunting with the hounds," their object being to kill the grain-growing fc&U milling industries, with their num«rous adjuncts, such as southern railways, etc., and naturally the shrinkage would have to be met by increasing the northern railages, etc. Their theory is one tax on the land only and free trade. When this was given birth to the Asiatic problem was unmatched. What encouragement would there bo to go on the land unless the products of the soil are protected on tiie sanio lines as our rivals? How would our town industries thrive under such stupidity? Could they compete against the sweated surplusages of tho world, unless amply protected? And even now it is with a struggle they exist. It is obvious tho single tax theory \s only one tax on the land, and if given effect to would abolish the Alien I'oU Tax a.ud bring us dowu to the Asiatic lovel. —Yours truly, CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENSE.

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