BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1926, Page 4

BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.

A VISITOR'S PANACEA. (J ROW APPLES IN DOMINIONS. (l!y Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■NELSON, Sunday. Commenting on the Imperial Economic Committee's fruit report. .Sir Henry • lones, of Henry Jones Co-operative, J.td., of Holmrt, at present vi>itiiiL? NelMm, said that preference was a fine thins for the Dominions, but ho did not think voluntary preference would be niucil good. The principle was all right, lnit was not sufficiently concrete to get us very far. >'ir Henry did not think private preference, either, would acom■plish much. "It would be," he added, '•;i groat tiling for England if we could pet preference on both sides. The only far-reaching policy is a, cooperative one based on mutual preference." Sir Henry went on to t-ay that, if properly developed, the Dominions could grow sufficient fruit to meet all of Great Britain's requirements, and the work of production could easily absorb the millien of unemployed at present on the dole in England. Let the unemployed emigrate, and they could help grow all the produce the United Kingdom could ■ilisorb. Continuing, he said: ""Even the whole of your Dominion ciop would be quite a negligible quantity. You have almost unlimited opportunities for expansion if you can be insured of a profitable export market. We loi.ded this soils on 42 ships in Tasmania witli 2,200,0<X> cases of ajrples. This is nothing to what we could do if encouraged with preference."