New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . ng exploited. The Governmentthought so, at any rate, and it lost no time in bringingthe guns of the Legislature to bear. This time, too, theyproposed to use the customs tariff as the weapon, and toact upon the recommendation of a board of Arbitration Court was appointed to conduct theinquiry. If it found, upon a duly lodged complaint,that the price of flour was unreasonably high, it couldrecommend the Government to remit the protectiveduty, and so throw the market open to the levellinginfluence of Australian and Americ
New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . ng exploited. The Governmentthought so, at any rate, and it lost no time in bringingthe guns of the Legislature to bear. This time, too, theyproposed to use the customs tariff as the weapon, and toact upon the recommendation of a board of Arbitration Court was appointed to conduct theinquiry. If it found, upon a duly lodged complaint,that the price of flour was unreasonably high, it couldrecommend the Government to remit the protectiveduty, and so throw the market open to the levellinginfluence of Australian and American importations. For its guidance the Court was instructed in the Actitself ^ that it was to consider the offence proved if theaverage price of flour in New Zealand should be rela-tively to the price of wheat in New Zealand higher thanthe average price of flour in Australia to the price ofwheat there, unless, in the opinion of the Court, theadditional price is justified by the additional cost of pro- The Flour and Other Products Monopoly Prevention Act, PROTECTION AND MONOPOLIES 329 duction. Wheat, to which the Act also applied, was tobe considered unreasonably dear if, by any complete orpartial monopoly, the price was higher than would bedetermined by unrestricted competition. The dutyon both wheat and potatoes^ can be removed if thereis any evidence of a monopoly. The Act was extended to potatoes in consequence of a strong suspicionof cornering thie short supplies in the seasons of 1904-6, when the cropswere decimated by potato blight. In that period over ^10,000 was paidin duty on imported potatoes. CHAPTER XXIV THE MAORI AS AN ECONOMIC FACTOR Extinction of the race threatened—The Treaty of Waitangi—The pre-fakcha Maori—A change in the savage economy—Relapse intobarbarism—Pakcha arts discarded—A native aristocracy—A nationalpoint of honour—A reign of aloofness—The influence of the prophets —The progressive Ngatiporou—A tribe of farmers—Successf
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