TARIFF INCREASES
FARMERS TAKE STRONG EXCEPTION.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 5.
Strong exception to the additional tariff recently imposed by the Government on imports from Great Britain was taken by speakers at a meeting of the East Tamaki branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. It was decided to convene a meeting of all farmers in the district, to be held on April 11, to decide what measures could be taken in retaliation by the farmer.
A suggestion was advanced that farmers should combine to boycott any New Zealand goods manufactured under protective tariffs which amounted to the establishment of a monopoly against British industry. The tariffs were also described as a direct penalty against producers who, while forced to sell their commodities on the open markets of the world, were compelled to purchase their requirements on a highly protected market. The opinion was expressed that tariffs, by increasing the cost living, penalised other sections of the community.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 8
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