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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 67, 21 June 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! JPlease Compare THE Two Customs Tariffs AND Reflect Upon Their Inequality. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH A TARIFF. {Thid door is priwUcall.y closed lo N-eW Zwilauti.) Flour per oontal, '!»■ Oil. Oatinoal and Rolled Oafs ... id !>"' lb - (Equals £1 I'Js. 4d. per ton) Bran and Sharps per cental. Is. Potatoes por ewt, Is. Butter and Cliw.se per II)., 3d. iWhoat p<m- pwital, Is. 6d. O«U , pt>r wntiil, Is. 6d. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. (About 1-jO 2><\r owit. lowor Ui»n Aus- , •.' truli*. Is not our door wido open !/ to Australia?) Flour per cental, Is. Oatmeal and llolled Oats (',,. in bulk iMir cental, Is. Boiled Oats, in packets ... 'JO per cent. i (Equal to \A. per lb.) Bran and Sharps per cental. Is. Potatoes , per cwt., Is. Butter 20 per cent. ''•■! (Equal to 2d. per Ib.i C'lieese SJO ppir cent. / (Kqual to Id. per lb) Wheat -, per cental, fld. Oats - t , per oental, I'd. If these Duties are removed, how would the New Zealand farmer faro? . N.B.—Mr. Hogg and other Single Tax enthusiasts do not suggest the removal of the duties on tho raw materials (wheat, oats, etc.). It is obvious they are "running with the hare 3Jkl hunting with the hounds," their being to kill the grain-growing pud milling industries, with their numerous adjuncts, eu-cli as southern ra.iliraye, etc., and naturally tii-o shrinkage would have to be met by increasing tli« northern railngee, etc. Tiwr theory if one tax on tho land only and fre« trade. AVUen this was given birth to the Asiatic problem was nnhatched. W'bat eiicouragpnioiit would tliere be to go on th« land unless tho products of tho soil arc protected on tlie earno lines as our rivals? How would our town incJu!»tnV« thrire under tuck stupidity? Could they compete •gainst tl>e sweated surplusages of tho world, unlos3 amply protected? And even now it is with ix struggle they ex. Wt. It is obvious the single tax theory is only one tax on the land, and if given •ffect to would abolish tlw Alien Poll Tax and bring us down to the Asiatic level.— Yours truly, CU&UPIOH'S COMMON-BEMBS, < JUST. OUT! | ; i latest "Worker" Enterprise, i Alderman Haley's j • " Open Letter to Arch- ; bishop Redwood" j AX i> ' C. R. Ford's : f> The Case Against Gofflpui-ii sopjf Military Training. ,1 ; Attractive PampiiJets, Price 3d each. t Wholesale at 2a. pev dozen ° copies. Postage extra — !: 4d. per dozen. Viiions and Irratu-l-iec* sJuald wuini j* 82ieedtlj for supplies. ' * " Saorilaod Worker/ WellingtoA. i