COMMUNITY IMMIGRATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 19

COMMUNITY IMMIGRATION.

TO THE EDiTOB OF THE PR*SS Sir,—l appreciate Mr Manning's letter on my migrant million, but voluntary and isolated saving is not enough: the fight against the disintegrating forces of civilisation is both greater and more difficult than against a foreign military foe. Briefly my points were: — (1) That the world is in the throes of a world revolution in agriculture, and that this may permanently affect NewZealand's economic balance. (2) That it is possible to go in for a huge development without borrowing. That by borrowing from another country you are borrowing her products, i.e., her work. After you have borrowed you must send your products in payment and accept what the people of that country choose to give you. For instance, the people of the United Kingdom in their private capacity give Denmark a preference of many pence a lb for her butter. (3) That the investment banks of Germany provide a model for the control of huge and complicated developments. It provides a medium whereby the aristocracy of talent can serve the common man, and we are all common men outside our special sphere. (4) That as a result of debt, disorganisation, etc., the founding of a migrant State gives an easy way out of our troubles. To reform ourselves in a very small way takes a tremendous amount of applied energy. For instance, it took the mental effort necessary to build an Ashburton to remove a shed from Cathedral square. Therefore let us keep building States within our State a little better than the last. Give the old the sanctity of their home, hut give the young new worlds to conquer. — Yours, etc., Jj. C. WALKER. Hornby, December 4th, 1930.