Page 8 Advertisements Column 1

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 May 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! Please Compare THE Two Customs Tariffs AND Reflect Upon Their Inequality. AUSTRALIAN COMMON WEALTH -**• TARIFF. (Tln'3 door is practically closed to New Zealand.) flour per cental, 2s. Gd. Oatmeal and Kollod Oats ... Jd per U>. (Equals £4 13s. 4d. p&r ton) Rran and Jsha.ps per cental, Is. Potatoes per <'wt, Is. Itntter and Cheese per I!)., 3d. Wheat Jkt cental. Is. Gd. Oats per cental, ls. 6d. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. (About 150 per cent, lower than Australia. Is not our door wide open to Australia?) Flour per cental, Is. Oatmeal and ltolled Oats in bulk per cental, ls. Rolled Oats, in packets ... 20 per cent. (Equal to Id. per lb.) Bran and .Sharps per cental, Is. Potatoes per cwt., ls. Butter 20 per cent. (Equal to 2d. per lb.) Chocso 20 per cent. (Equal to Id. per lb.) Wheat per certal, 9d. Oats per cental, 9d. if thesa Duties are removsd, how would the New Zealand farmer fare? N.B.—Mr.' Hogg and other Single Tax enthusiasts do not suggest Iho remoral of the duties on tho raff materials (wheat, oats, etc.). It is obvious they are "running with the hare and hunting with the hounds," their object being to kill tho grain-growing and milling industries, with their numerous adjunct.-;, such as southern milways, etc., and naturally the shrinkage would have to be met by incie.ising tho northern railages, etc. Their theory is on© tax on tho land only nnd i'lci; trade. When this was given birth to the Asiatic problem was unliatehcd. What encouragement would there bo to go on the land unless tiio products nl' the soil are protected on the same lines as our rinds r How would our town industries thiive under such stupidity? Could they competo against the sweated surplusages of the world, unless amply protected? And even now it is with a struggle they exist. It is obvious the single tax theory is only one tax on the land, and if given effect to Mould abolish tlie Alien Poll Tax and bring us down to tho Asiatic level. —Yours truly, CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENSE. 1 L_ , . ! JUST OUT! latest " Worker " Enterprise. Alderman Hartley's " Open Letter to Archbishop Redwood" AND C. R. Ford's "The Case Against Compulsory Military Training," Attractive Pamphlets, Price 3d each. Wholesale at 2s. per dozen copies. Postage extra — 4d. per dozen. Unions and branches should send speedily for supplies. „ Maoriland Worker," Wellington.