CUTTING IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 7

CUTTING IMPORTS.

GERMANY'S POLICY.

BIG WHEAT PRODUCTION.

MORE THAN AUSTRALIA'S,

Last year Germany grew more wheat than was grown in the whole of Australia. Tliis was mentioned by Dr. Heinz Krause, of Jena University, Germany, wlio is touring New Zealand in the course of an investigation into wheat production costs in various countries. He said Germany during the last four or five years had increased her wheat production enormously. Before the depression she' imported a considerable quantity of foreign wheat, but now, with the great curtailment of the exports of her manufacturers overseas, she was unable to pay for any foreign o-rain she might wish to import. Germany was losing her markets and she was forced to take fewer imports. For that reason Germany was compelled to foster her agricultural industries by tariffs, by education, by the support of co-operative movements, and by the "ranting of credits, with the result that she had now practically no imports. The presence, too, of live million unemployed meant that there was a> considerably lessened consumption of wheat. Dr. Krause asserted that this curtailment of imports was not due to purely nationalistic factors or any desire to have a completely self-contained Germany. Germany plainly was in her present position through sheer force of circumstances; the depression had resulted in the loss of many of her markets* and the fact was that she was quite unable to continue importing as in the past. Germany had no desire to be self-sufficient unto herself, as the United States; she was unable to be, as she was not in such a favourable position. The Nazi Government was continuing the policy of its' predecessors in fostering and- -encouraging agricultural inIdijtry, ■v '• *