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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1920, Page 12

Says the Lyttelton Times:—No matter how the Government may pretend to control the price of bread, so long as this is done by the payment of subsidies out of the Consolidated Fund, the whole thing is mere eyewash, for the money for the subsidy has first to be extracted from the pockets of the people by taxation. The Government is drifting further and further from sound economic and moral principles. In the process the long-suffering public is to have both its taxation and its bread bill increased. Arrangements have been made by the New Zealand Government to secure for the woollen mills in the Dominion the German dyes needed by the woollen industry. The arrangements were decided upon in connection with the annual meeting of the Now Zealand Woollen Mills' Association in Wellington lasft week. Mr. J. A. Frostiek, chairman of the Kaiapoi Company, stated on Saturday that only small quantities of German dyes were used in New Zealand. The Germans had certain dyes that, up to the present time, had not been satisfactorily produced by the British. Substituted dyes bad been used in the British Empire, and these, although perhaps not as good as the German dyes, had answered the purpose to some extent. Tho Imperial Government had had a clause inserted in the Treaty with Germany giving the British certain rights, connected with the German 1 dyes. There was no compulsion as far l as New Zealand was concerned, but if ' mills' in the Dominion needed the Ger- • man article, the required quantity jwrold. he available