A HOPEFUL HISTORICAL PARALLEL.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 19 August 1932, Page 18

A HOPEFUL HISTORICAL PARALLEL.

TO TK>j EDITOR 01 THE PRESS. Sir,—ln the correspondence columns of Thb Press on August 16th appears a letter from Mr J. E. Stevens, of Nelson, on the above subject. The gist of it is that we might develop a reciprocal trade with other countries, and he .specially mentioned the possibility oi" importing Australian wheat and flour towaTds this policy. This Utopian idea shows rather a lack of knowledge ol : the peculiar conditions that exist. We could. tako Australian wheat, flour, fruit, vines, and many other goods ibafc there is no need to mention here;

hut I would like to know what single farm product of this country Australia floes not moduee and we cou d supply. If we take -€2.000.000 worth of Australian wheat and Hour every year, what could Australia possibly take in return ? She does not want our butter, clieeso, meat, oats, chaff, or wocl —it would bo something like carting coal to Newcastle. She has an embargo against our potatoes. She takes a few onions when there is an onion famine over there. But this exhausts my lists. —Yours, etc..

WOULD LIKE TO KNOW