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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10492, 1 December 1911, Page 4

CITIZENS AND SETTLERS PLEASE COMPARE THE TWO CUSTOMS TARIFFS AND REFLECT UPON THEIR INEQUALITY USTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH mARIFF. (This door is practically closed to New Zealand!) Flour P*»r <* n & 2b 6d Oatmeal and Rolled Oatß, fcl per lb equals £4 13s 4d.per ton Bran and Sharps per cental lfl Potatoes. ** Te "k}S Butter and cheese Pf lit <w Wheat per cental Is 6d O a t s per oental Is od 'EALAND ABIFF (About 150 per cent, lower than Australia. . Is not our door now wide open to Australia?) Flour, per cental, -' . l fi ' Oatmeal and Rolled Oats, in bulk per cental, is. Rolled Oats, in packetß, 20 per cent., equal to Jd per lb. Bran and Sharps, per cental Ib.' Potatoes cwt, Is. Butter 20 per cent, equal to 2d per lb Cheese, 20 per cent, equal to Id lb Wheat, ' P«r cental 9d Oats, per cental Sd ' IF THESE DUTIES ARE REMOVED, HOW WOULD THE NEW ZEALAND FARMER FARE? N.B.— Mr Hogg and other Single Tax enthusiasts do not suggest the removal of the duties on the raw materials (wheat, oats, etc.) it is obvious They aTe "running with the bare and hunting with the hounds," their object being to kill the grain-t----hrowing and milling industries with their numerous adjuncts, such as Southern railways, etc., and, naturally, the shrinkage would have to be met. by increasing the Northern railages, etc. Their theory is one tax only and free trade. When this was given birth to the Asiatic problem was unhatched. What encouragement would there be to go on the land unless the products of the soil are protected, on the same lines as our rivals? How would our town industries thrive under such stupidity ? Could they compete against the sweated .surplusages of the world udloss amply ' protected ? And even now it is with a strug gle they exist. It is obvious the Single Tax theory is only one tax on the land, and if given effect to would abolish the Alien Poll Tax and bring as down to the Asiatic level. f Yours truly, •CHAMPION'S COMMON-SENSE.