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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! Please Compare TEE Two Customs Tariffs AND Reflect Upon Their Inequality. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH ""■ TARIFF. (Tiiis door is practically closed Iβ New Zealand.) I'Sviur percental, 2s. Gd. Oatmoal and Rolled Oats ... id ]>ct lb. (Equals £4 13s. 4<l. per Ion) Gran and Sharps per cental, Is. Potatoes per cwt, Is. Butter and Cheese per lb., 3d. .Whoat per cental, Is. Gd. O*ts * per cental, Iβ. 6d. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. {About MO per cent, lower tli-an Australia. Is not our door wide open to Australia?) Flour per cental, 3s. Oatmoal and Kollcd Oats in hulk per cental, Is. ttollcd Oats, in packets ... 20 p«?r cent. (Equal to Jd. per lb.) Brau and Sharps per cental. Is. Potatoes per cwt., Is. ButU.-r 20 per cent. (Equal to 2d. per lb.) Chctwu 20 per cent. (Equal to Id. per lb.) .Wlwat per cental, Od. O»U> per cental, 9d.

If thess Duties are removed, how would the New Zealand farmer fare? N.H. —Mr. Hogg and oLlior Single Tax oiitluiMasts do not suggest the ro-mor.-il <>f the duties on the raw materials (wheat, oats, etc.)- It is obvitouft they are "nnining with'the hare |uiid linnling with the hounds," tlioijiebjoot Liein<; to kill tho grain-growing totui milling industries, with their nuriiWnii- adjuncts, such as southern railways, vie, and naturally the. shrinkage VfliiM liave to bo met by increasing the northern raiiagos, etc. Their theory is one tax on the land ©ah , iiitil free trado. "When Ibis was giron birth to the Asiatic problem was unmatched. What encouragement would there be to go on the land unless tho products of the soil are protected on tlw samo lines as our rivals? How fwoiild our town industries thrive under such stupidity? Could they compete ftg-Miisl the sweated surplusages of tho world, unless amply protected? And »4 r cii now it is with a struggle they exirt. It is obvious the single tax theory is only one tax on the hind, and if given ■effect to would abolish the Alien Poll Tax and bring us down to the Asiatic Wei.—Yours truly, CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENSE.

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