ALIEN GREENGROCERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 307, 29 December 1931, Page 6

ALIEN GREENGROCERS.

lii reply to Mr. Alexander Fraser regarding alien fruiterers, I wish to draw liis attention to the fact that I did not mention sentiment in my letter, which, very properly, should not be introduced into business. The word was "patriotism," which has a very P™ 10 ? 1 meaning. Does Mr. Fraser suggest that patriotism, too, should be divorced ™ business? "What of the dumping of Soviet butter in England to the detriment of our own New Zealand farmers? And the importation of foreign goods which causes money, be sent out of the country without any return. Is our dairy produce inferior or Bntisb-majj goods of a poor quality? No, but the method of foreign production is open toi questi »• So regarding the contention that white erers should polish their wares hke Orientals and that they should produce WW own vegetables as cheaply so that tney compete more successfully, the answeris Kipling's couplet, "East is East and Wert■ » West . . Does he not know that » men who toil in the market gardens un trade union rules are often working off * horse—their poll tax—which may take W* years to do? Could white ; men work the same conditions? Perhaps Mr. J thinks of the profits of these aliens being to introduce more of their owt-country© into the Dominion and thereby helpi 0 balance the Budget by extra PJ^Jyp,