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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 66, 14 June 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! fplease Compare THE Two Customs Tariffs AND Reflect Upon Theis' Inequality. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH TARIFF. {This door i 3 practically closed to New Zealand.) <■ Flour per cental, 2s. 6d. .Oatmeal and Rolled Oats ... }d per lb. \ (Equals £4 Vis. 4d. per ton) Bran and Sharps per cental, Ib. •Potatoes per cwt, Is. Butter and Clieese per lb., 3d. (Wheat per cental, Is. Gd. Oats » por cental, Is. 6d, ; HEW ZEALAND TARIFF. [(About 150 per cent, lower than Australia. Is not our door wide open ,;.!' to Australia?) iFlour per cental, la. .Oatmeal and Rolled Oats 1 in bulk per cental, Is. Itollod Oats, in packets ... "0 per cent. 'j (Equal to Jd. per lb.) IBran and Sharps por cental, Is. (Potatoes ...„ per cwt., Is. Sutter '. 20 per cent. i* (Equal to 2d. per lb.) Ohceso 20 per cent. (' , (Equal to Id. per lb.) (Wheat per cental, 9d. jDats ix-r cental, 9d. If these Duties ara removad, ho?/ Would the New Zealand farmer fare? JN.B. —Mr. Hogg and oilier Single Jlax enthusiasts do not suggest the reatnoval of the duties on tho raw maijerials (wheat, oats, etc.). It is obvious they are "running with the hare jjfod hunting with the hounds," their jSbject being to kill the grain-growing i'Jukl milling industries, with their numiaxrus adjuncts, such as southern railSfays, etc., and naturally the shrinkage 1 frblild have to be mot by increasing tho northern railages, etc. Their theory is ono tax on the land ftiily and free trade. When tin's was given birth to tho Asiatic problem was "What encouragement would liiere be to go on the land unless the products of tiio soil are protected on the samo lines as our rivals? How fljvould our town industries thrive under (Bucli stupidity? Could tlicy compete figainst tho sweated surplusages of tho .World, unless amply proteetod? And $yen now it is with a struggle they exist. It is obvious the singlo tax theory ,|B only one tax on the land, and if given feffect to would abolish tho Alien Poll $Tax and bring us down to the Asiatic level.—Yours truly, CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENBE. JUST OUT! latest "Worker" Enterprise. Alderman Hartley's " Open Letter to Archbishop Redwood" j AND C. R. Ford's Is The Gas@ Against Gompidsory Military Training." Attractive Pamphlets, Price 3d each. (Wholesale at 2s. per dozen copies. Postage extra — 4d. per dozen. IJTmons and brandies should send speedily for supplies. " Maorilaad Worker," Wellington.