FARMERS PROTEST AGAINST TARIFF
COST OF PRODUCTION CANNOT BE PASSED ON Press Association. PAHIATUA, To-day. Copies of a letter signed by numerous dairy companies have been forwarded to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Commerce, in which the dairy companies respectfully enter a protest against the alteration of the Customs Tariff which may go in the direction of increasing the costs of producing butter and cheese. It is apparent, they say, that if passed in its present form the Bill will have the effect of doing this. They have only to mention dairy machinery, some of which is manufactured abroad, and which is, unquestionably, much more suitable for dairy factory work than that mantifactured ill the Dominion or United Kingdom. Dairy companies in the Dominion, individually and collectively, are opposed to a tariff which protects local industry (which is always able to pass on higher manufacturing costs), thus penalising primary producers, who could not pass on costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)
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158FARMERS PROTEST AGAINST TARIFF Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)
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