A SELF-SUPPORTING DOMINION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18152, 15 August 1924, Page 11

A SELF-SUPPORTING DOMINION.

TO THE BDITOB Of "tße' PRESS." ' . Sir,—l notice a letter in your issue of the 12 th insfc:. ''Beware of Dutch Sugar," and I think the author'is correct. We, as New* Zealanders and Britishers, should support. New Zealand industries, : and .anything wo cannot get in New Zealand wo should get within- the British Empire if_ possible. We should bo patriotic even .if xv& are not'at war—tike America,. boost our own native land, and help our. own blood to get a*living. ' I'ieel'sure'if, we did there would be no -unemployment in our country. • I am thinking not only of * sutrar. Thero arc' a lot of other commodities and necessities. . such as tobacco, in tho same I believe there is about £448,000 worth of tobacco' .import 3d into this 'couutrv within tho fast 12 months. It's a lot of morieyito be sent out of th© country when 'we have an industry in- our: own-country producing as good tobacco as ever was imported ;.rthink, better. The.money that is sent out pf this, country for tobacco would feed quite a lot of young New .ijealaijclers, ..so. wfcy take the duty off tobacco? Let us smoke tobacco grown by New Zealanders and manufactured by New Zealanders in New Zealand. —Yours, etc.. . . NOT A SHAREHOLDER. Hokitika, August 13th, 1924.