STOCK FOOD DUTIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1080, 18 September 1930, Page 14

STOCK FOOD DUTIES

PETITION SEEKS REMOVAL MEMBERS’ OPINION DIVIDED Association ELLINGTON, Wednesday A. petition praying for the removal of import duties on cereal and vJ. table stock foods was today in the House of Represent 1 /' tives by the Agricultural and Industries and Stock Committee tZ committee recon mended the net it,, to the Government for sideration. A number of members express,' approval of the report of the comma tee on the ground that the recot/ mendation, if adopted, would the cost of production, while othwi contended it would have a detriment!! effect on the New Zealand wheat ta dustry and increase unemployment - ’ Mr - I Jones (Reform— Mid-Can terbury) moved an amendm-nt thTtlie report be referred back to th committee for further considerate' He said there Mas alreadv an ahund ante of food on the free list for breeders in New Zealand. Tho amendment was seconded bv Mr. C. D. Carr (Labour—Timaru j Mho said he Mas opposed to import ing anything into this country thal could be produced here at a reas?T able price. Mf- G. C. Black (Government Motuekai supported the recommends tlon of the committee. He claim-i VOS 9 .?** every reason to anticipate that there would oe a. good market;* Home for product- of the New Z«. land pig and poultry industries, and he believed their development tvorid be of great value to the Dominion Mr. H. E. Holland, Deader of tb« Labour Party, said unless some other provision were made for the wheat industry in New Zealand, it would be seriously affected by the loss of prol tection if the duties Mere removed They should be substituted by a bounty. It was essential in the interests of the country that such an inportant industry should not be endangered.

The debate was interrupted bv the afternoon adjournment of the House.