PRODUCE QUOTAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 6

PRODUCE QUOTAS.

I should like to reply to "U.M.P." about produce quotas. Naturally, we should all be against quotas by Britain in tliis country, but we try to manage our country as suits us, and we would like to deny this right to Britain, that has watched and protected us ii 0111 infancy, and now that we are a selfgoverning State we try to get our Motherland to give us further concessions to her own tetriment. Britain's first and most important charge is her own citizens, and too long suffered for the benefit of importers. . - advocates farmers' boards, to get m touch with the representatives of "CW.S." now in this country re marketing- arraneemen s. Tins I thought had been arranged m London by existing boards. My advice to boaids in general is to work in harmony with the wholesalers, and not try to run before they can walk. The policy of opening special shops to se ll New Zealand produce is a mighty fine idea. It would be a huge success on paper, but, I fancy, an expensive experiment. We aie continually hearing of the excessive profits of the middlemen, and if thev are so huge for the small service evidently done and the small jcapi al lequired to do it, is it not astonishing 1 Vel T UC T oes 11 °k get a branch of his Vu Vn " *i' ie farmers' boards are business men ey wiL deal through legitimate channels, for & produce war will be even worse than quotas. If Aew Zealand is not pleased with its lot in the market of Britain, why not seek pastures iiewj , VERITAS.