FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MARKETS.
If "Curious" is genuinely unable to judge between the statements he quotes concerning our national income, whether derived more from supplying tha foreign market than tue domestic, I would, without posing as a oracle on the subject, most decidedly say the latter. The home trade of all countries J» always greater than the foreign traae. little reflection will show why this is, an must be so. Wealth is produced for the purpose of satisfying our requirements, and mo of these are, and can only be, provided locallyFood and fuel almost entirely, clothing largely, and shelter wholly; while the services of P r fessional men, doctors, lawyers, clergymen, journalists, dentists, civil servants ® e , of the police and defence forces can be render only by those resident within the country Because food is an imperative necessity an cannot be done without, farmers are a P.t lose sight of the interdependence of the dine - ent occupations in a civilised State. Witnou the transport worker, the merchant and t banker his toil would be in vain, but 1 once admit the others are sheltered trade compared with his. , ALEXANDER FRASER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 6
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