“BUY BRITISH GOODS”
FARMERS FAVOUR SLOGAN THE SUN'S Special Representati » WHANGAREI, Wednesday. A scathing indictment of the poli< ▼ ! of certain public bodies in purcha-ii r ! machinery of foreign manufacture when New Zealand or British-m.ide goods were available at competi iv^ ; prices was made by several speaker ; ! at the Farmers’ Union Conference this afternoon. Mr. U. H. Renton. Clevedon. stated that during a recess in the conference he had visited the Whangarei Wharf 1 and noticed foreign farm implements ' consigned to the Government Scale • Farm. There also had been tlire * American road graders consigned to it local public body. In his district, also, the Auckland Power Board w * buying and installing foreign manuI faetured motors. The union favoured preference t# j British gauds.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 13
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