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Playing favourites

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Playing favourites

This 1921 cartoon from the New Zealand Free Lancerefers to a new tariff, which was likely to hurt local manufacturers. The tariff allowed agricultural implements to be imported free of all duties to encourage farmers to invest in machinery. Farmers got the sweets and industrialists went without.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: N-P 1392-20

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Megan Cook, Government and industrial development – Encouraging industry from the 19th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/25851/playing-favourites (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 23 February 2010.