DEARER GOODS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20504, 21 May 1938, Page 9

DEARER GOODS

PROTEST BY FARMERS HOSTILITY IN BRITAIN MANUFACTURERS TAKEN TO TASK (Special Reporter) AUCKLAND, Friday The growing hostility against New Zealand produce in Britain, as evidenced by the threatened boycott of New Zealand butter in industrial areas in the Midland Counties, was viewed with grave apprehension by delegates at the Provincial Conference of the Farmers Union which concluded today. A remit was carried calling upon the Dominion Executive of the Union to take the strongest measures possible to prevent the farming industry being Jeopardised for the benefit of a numerically small section of the community. Failing a satisfactory adjustment of the position by other means, it was urged that a campaign be organised to induce farmers to buy imported goods in preference to protected locally-produced goods of a similar nature. Minister’s Promise In introducing the remit, Mr J. H. Furniss stated that the Minister of Marketing had said that the prices of locally manufactured goods would not rise because of the increased tariffs- " However, I am informed,” said Mr Furniss, "that a visit was paid by representatives of the manufacturers to all retailers, advising them to alter the numbering of their shoes and slightly to alter the appearance so that the rise of prices could not be traced. A stringent investigation is needed to expose the flagrant violation of the principles enunciated by Mr Nash and It seems that the only protest left to the consuming public is io decline to buv the articles in question.”