INCREASING OUR CONSUMPTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 6

INCREASING OUR CONSUMPTION.

Now that we are becoming painfully aware that we cannot force all our surplus butter on the British market we need to inquire whether it is a real surplus. For if we could increase our home consumption to what the people need we might find that the true surplus is very considerably less than what we are exporting. The trouble is that we regulate our consumption not by what we really need, but by what we can pay for. If we cannot pay for all the butter we need, then we are allowing a defective money system to make fools of us all, and paupers of many. Why cannot we make our money fit our gooJ*. *n<l not our goods according to our ill-provision of money tickets? I am'informed that butter is not allowed to those who arc hold as ,_ prisoners in our gaols. Surely wo ought to remember that we are punishing the producer' by restricting or limiting consumption, and that it is only a good business proposition to bring consumption into equality with pro- - duction, even though we feed wrong-doers as healthy people should be fed. PETER MELLOR.-