MOTHER'S CAKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 44, 21 February 1923, Page 8

MOTHER'S CAKE.

BETTER THAN FOREIGN BREAD TRADE AXD IMMIGRATION. (By Telcgrapii.—Special to "Star."* I CHRISTCHURCH. this day. Sir Horace Bayer, of London, who has been in Christehurch for the past ! few days in the course of a business ' and pleasure tour of Australia. Xew I Zealand. Canada and tbe United States, j spoke with enthusiasm to a Press re porter to-day on what he termed the I ideal workers countries of Australia and j Xew Zealand. [ "English people." lie said, 'have a lot tto learn from both Australia and Xew Zealand. They little realise the wonderful possibilities of both countries. What has struck mc as most extraordinary is the consumption of British made commodities in both. lam not far outside the mark when T say that the people of Xew Zealand consume in a ration of C to 1. which in plain parlance' means that the consumption of British commodities by your 1.250.000 people is equal to that of 7,500.000 people at Home. We desire the closest relationship in commerce, and equally ask the people of Australia and Xew Zealand to believe that their own mother's cake is better than foreign bread and butter. If the people will only realise that by keeping their money within the Empire, i instead of aUowinqr agents of foreign ■ountries to talk, them into purchasing commodities of questionable value, it will strengthen the bond of kinship and mutual prosperity. As T have able to visualise in too short a stay, T have found that living is on a far higher (and to my mind better and sounder) basis thati in England. For the sound working population of the Mother Country 1 can conceive of no better or brighter future than to emigrate to these countries, which are willing to receive with open arms workers to help in their development. When it is understood that Xew Zealand has a population of only 1,250,000 and the same area as England. Scotland and Wales combined, which have a population of 50,000,000, it is readily seen what extraordinary opportunities are offered to workers' here by comparison with the Old Country. The comparison is all the more difficult to realise when one thinks of Australia, a country barely capable of being placed in the map of Europe, which yet has scarcely 5,500,000 inhabitants." Sir Horace will be a passenger by the ferry steamer for Wellington to-morrow, and will leave Auckland on March 6th for Vancouver.