Story: Government and agriculture

Preference to farmers

Preference to farmers

This cartoon from the November 1921 issue of New Zealand Free Lance refers to a newly introduced tariff. Tariff preference was extended to imports from the British Empire, lowering the cost of industrial goods that would hurt local manufacturers. However, agricultural implements were allowed to enter the country free of all duty to encourage farmers to use them. The cartoon suggests that farmers were given preferential treatment. There is no question that a primary concern of government economic policy in the interwar years was to promote and assist farming.

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Tony Nightingale, 'Government and agriculture - Government support and incentives, 1918–1938', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/cartoon/18067/preference-to-farmers (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Tony Nightingale, published 24 Nov 2008