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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 71, 19 July 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! Please Compare THE Two Gustoms Tariffs ANB Reflect Upon Their Inequality. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH i * TARIFF. (This door is practically closed to New .Zealand.) Flour per cental, 2s. 6d. Oatmeal and Rolled Oats ... id per lb. (Equala £4 13s. 4d. por ton) Bran and Sharps per cental, Is. Potatoes por cwt, Is. Butter and Cheese per lb., 3d. Wheat , por cental, Is. 6dOats ~ per cental. Is. 6d. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. (Abont 150 per cent. lower Mian Australia. Is not our door wide open to Australia ?) Flour per oenbal, Is. Oatmeal and Rolled Oats in bulk per cental, Is. Rolled Oats, in packets ... 20 per cent. (Equal to _d. per lb.) Bran and Sharps per oental, Is. Potatoes per cwt., Is. Butter 20 per cent. (Equal to 2d. per lb.) Cheese 20 per cent. (Equal to Id. per lb.) Wheat pe r cental, 9d. Oats per oental, 9d. W these Duties are removed, how would the N9w Zealand farmer fare? N.B.—Mr. Hogg and other Single Tax enthusiasts do not suggest the removal of the duties on the raw materials (wheat, oats, etc.). It is obvious they are "running with the hare and hunting with the hounds," their object 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 one tax on the land suily and free trade. When this was given birth to the Asiatic problem was unhatched. What encouragement would there be to go on the land unless tho products of tho soil are protected on the same lines as our rivals? How would our town industries thrive under such stupidity? Could they compete aga-inst tho sweated surplusages of the world, unless amply protected? And even now it is with a struggle they exist. It is obvious the 3ingle tax theory is only one tax on the land, and if given effect to would abolish the Alien Poll Tax and bring us down to the Asiatic level.—Yours truly, CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENSE.

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