A PRODUCER'S VIEW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 201, 26 August 1935, Page 6

A PRODUCER'S VIEW.

Your leading article under the above heading gives food for thought.- At any time comparisons are odious, and at the present time to create cleavage between town and country is very regrettable. Your catalogue of items of "assistance" to farmers is indeed imposing, even if they would not stand much investigation; as, for instance, the exchange, which is merely an additional protective duty temporarily benefiting those it is designed to protect. The resultant high cost of production makes the particular products unsaleable in the world's markets. That is why all our secondary industries have to be consumed locally, which accounts for the high figure of GO per cent total products, when we remember that such items as wool 95 per cent and butter 89 per cent are exported. We all know that without exports we cannot import. Does that mean if there were no butter, wool, etc., exported there would be no such strings of beautiful cars in our big cities? I sometimes wonder how much "assistance" the Government and cities coukl give even themselves if the country suddenly became a desert and the cities were suddenly left in splendid isolation. B. O'CONNOR..