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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 65, 7 June 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! Please Compare THE Two Customs Tariffs AND Reflect Upon Their Inequality, AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH "* TARIFF. (Thia door is practically closed to New Zealand.) Flour per oenfcal, 2s. 6d. Oatmeal and Rolled Oata ... Id per lb. (Equals JC4 13s. Id. par ton) Bran and Shaipa per cental, Is. Potatoes per cwt, Is. Butter and Cheoso per lb., 3d. .Wheat per cental, ls. Gd. Oat& per cental, Is. Gd. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. (About 1-50 per cent. lower than Australia. Is not our door wido open to Australia?) Flour per cental, Is. Oatmeal and Rolled Oats in bulk per cental, ls. Rolled Oats, in packets ... 20 por cent. (Equal to Jd, per lb.) Bran and Sharps por cental, Is. Potatoes per cwt., 13. Butter 20 per cent. (Equal to 2d. per lb.) Chocso 20 por cent. (Equal to Id. por lb.) Wheat por cental, 9d. Oat 3 per cental, Dd. If these Duties are removed, how would the New Zealand farmer fare? N.B. —Mr. Hogg and other Single -Tax enthusiasts do not suggest the removal of tho duties on tho raw materials (wheat, oats, etc.). It is obvi- , bus thoy aro "running with the hare ' and hunting with the hounds," their ©bject being to kill the grain-growing and milling industries, with their numerous adjuncts, such as southern railways, etc., and naturally the shrinkage Would have to be met by increasing the northern railages, etc. Their theory is ono tax on the land only and free trade. When this was given birth to the Asiatic problem was unLatchcd. What encouragement would there bo to go on the land unless the products of tho soil are protected on the same lines as que rivals? How Would our town industries thrive under Buch stupidity? Could they compote Against tho sweated surplusages of the World, unless amply protected? And even now it is with a struggle they ox» ist. It ia obvious the single tax theory is only one tax on tho land, and if given effect to would abolish the Alien Poll Tax and bring us down to tho Asiatic level.—Yours truly, CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENSE.

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