AUCKLAND C. OF C. AND WHEAT POOL

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 6

AUCKLAND C. OF C. AND WHEAT POOL

Surely it would be an impropriety for the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to bring the maladministration of this Dominion into the limelight in old London Town. By rousing the displeasure and deep concern of, the Home Government we might put in jeopardy our status as a self-governing country, an independence we dearly love in spite of its melodramatic and rather puerile expressions .since the Armistice. We must not lose sight of tha fact that the gentlemen at St. as the mortgagees of much English capital invested in New Zealand, would be disturbed by the caprieiousness and irresponsibility of the mortgagors—the gentlemen in the Assembly Buildings at Wellington. The "investigations of a royal assignee would reveal much want of sagacity and ordinary business acumen by our Legislature, more especially in relation to native affairs. And it would be obvious to them that our liquidation assets would hardly produce sufficient dividend to meet our Home obligations; especially when our assets consist largely of farms that have now only the market value of city villas and cottages and little auction value can be found in Arapuni dams and the Tongariro Chateau ®udotlier odds and ends in Wellington. It would be an embarrassment to have to house and entertain a royal bailiff at, say, the aforesaid chateau; we might feel inclined to pitch h| M into the aforesaid dam, or gently lower hi® into the Government wheat pool. The Associated Chambers of Commerce would be we " advised to restrain the exuberance of our own chamber and ask it to suffer in silence with an indignant populace, tighten the belt, eat the bread of thankfulness with reflection, paying for it any old price our step-fathers at "the Assembly Buildings choose to gather b y Act of Parliament. . J. A. BURNETT.