WHERE UNITEDS DIFFER
SHALL WHEAT DUTIES BE CONTINUED?
PLEDGES OF CHEAPER BREAD (From Our Resident Reporter) WELLINGTON, To-day. Disagreement which exists within the United Party on the eubject of continuance of the wheat duties, will reach a head when Sir Joseph Ward returns to Wellington. It is known that Sir Joseph’s statement in the South that the duties will be continued for another year does not reflect the opinion of the whole of hi*> Cabinet, and when the Prime Minister returns a clash on the subject is inevitable. Discontinuance of the wheat duties and consequent cheapening of the cost of a four-pound loaf by twopence, was one of the things advocated by some candidates in the North Island, and much, importance is attached to it. Thw concern which is felt is increased by the realisation that if the duties are continued until after next season’s crop is sold it will be almost two years before they are lifted. An alternative, which is likely to bo proposed, is that the Government should guarantee to the growers a return similar to that which they received last season. Possibly the average price for some years past will also receive consideration as the amount of the guarantee.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 8
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203WHERE UNITEDS DIFFER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 8
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