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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 73, 2 August 1912, Page 8

Citizens and Settlers! Please Compare THE Two Customs Tariffs AND Reflect Upon Their Inequality.

AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH **• TARIFF. VThie door is practically closed to New Zealand.)

F*l<mr fter cental, 2b. 6d. Oatmeal and Rotted Oats , ... &d p* N>. (KqnaU £4 13s. 4d. por ton) Bran and Sharps per cental, la. Potatoes per cwt, Iβ. Butter and Ghocae per lb., 3d. Wheat por cental, Iβ. WOats i per cental, Is. 6d

NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. [About 150 per bent, lower than Australia. Is not our door wide opeu to Australia?) Flour ptor cental, Is. Oatmeal and Rolled Oats in bulk per cental, la. Rolled Oats, in packets ... 20 per oeut. (Equal to id. per lb.) Bran and Sharps por cental, Is Potatoes por cwt., Iβ, Butter 20 per cent, (Equal to ad. per lb.) Choose 20 por cent. (Equal to Id. por lb.) Wheat per cortal, 9dOats per cental, 9d.

If these Duties are removed, how would the New Zealand farmer fare?

N.B. —Mr. Hogg ami 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 and hunting with the hounds," their object being to kill tho grain-growing ami milling industries, with their numerous adjuncts, such as soutltern railways, etc., and naturally the shrinkage would have to be m«t by increasing the northern railages, etc. Their theory is one tax on th« land only and free trade. When this wae given birth to the Asiatic problem was unfeatcbed. What encouragement would there bo to go on the land unless the products of tho soil are protected on the same lines as our rivals? How would our town industries thrive under eucli stupidity? Could they compete against the sweated surplusages of the world, unless amply protected? And even now it is with a struggle they exist. It is obvious the singlo tax theory is only one tax on the land, and if given effect to would abolish the Alien Poll lax and bring us down to the Asiatic level. —Yours truly, CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENSE.

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