“DUTIES INIQUITOUS”
WHEAT INQUIRY RESUMES FARMER MUST BE HELPED WELLINGTON, Today. The \Vh£at Duties Inquiry resumed this morning, Mr. Walter Nash, secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party, said that whatever protection \va*< given to wheat or to any other land industry would ultimately be retlected in the price of land and the removal of the duties was likely to lead to displacement of Labour in the country districts. The duty on wheat was one of the most unfair forms of taxation that could be found, because it affected the main food supply of the majority. He thought the baker was not overpaid though the retail price of bread was twice that of 1893-1012. He was of the opinion that something: was wronK between the grower and baker and this should be investigated.
Thoug-h he thought the wheat duties iniquitous, it would be unfair to the farmer to wipe them out. There should be some other method of assisting the farmer than at the expense of the poor people.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 770, 17 September 1929, Page 11
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