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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21423, 15 March 1935, Page 8

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fancying there is no special way out tt'or .'New Zealand. He is right when, he thinks that to increase exports will worsen terms of trade; and what is more, any increase in receipts from exports will go to the banks, who are not likely to let exporters have more spending power until their debts are nearer to being cleared. So I say again, increase in export receipts will not immediately increase internal purchasing power. Mr Keynes thinks that New Zealand's depression is due to "the decline of purchasing power of exports over imports." I am inclined to think that this is a mistake and that imports have fallen in value equal to the fall in value of exports. The exporter is in New Zealand currency with the total receipts of his exports, irrespective of the quantity of imiports bought or the trade balance. I maintain that New Zealand's depression is due to the fall in value of exports, to the failure to reduce the F'ze of standing debts (mortgages, etc.) in progression with the reduction in value of commodities, and to the'stoppage of the infusion of new money

culates naturally; but it would be an unnatural cure for cold feet to take blood from the shoulder and transfuse it into the feet. Yet something like this happens when necessary requirements of a section of the community have to be met by a forcible extraction from other sections. Such a process does not of course diminish the amount of money available; but a great deal of the prdcess might be unnecessary if those who possess more than they need would set it into circulation of their own free will on whatever appeals to them, preferably on employment of some sort. But whether the money is put into circulation by the Government or by private individuals or by gifts for public buildings, the fact remains that it may still remain the same amount of money, returning again to the banks whence it was taken. There can therefore be no excuse for leaving any section of the community without work and the means to live. A better money system might help us a lot; but the point I would like to make is that we can't afford to wait for that.— Yours, etc.. A PLAIN MAN. March M. U"35.

by the ravages of deer on their estates, will see this letter and answer my question. —Yours, etc., DEER STALKER. March 14, 1935. MEETING OP THE UNEMPLOYED TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRI.SS. Sir, —It would be in the unemployed men's interests to get rid of their leaders and not to try to force themselves on the citizens of Christchurch by threats. At yesterday's meeting it was obvious that a large number did not come because they wanted to, but because they were compelled. There were many taking part in the procession who did not seem particularly ill-1 nourished, nor any down-at-heel; but there were present the agitators, who want to see trouble from one end of j the country to the other. The genuine unemployed were not there; the trouble-makers were. Councillor. Armstrong objects to charity. Why? Surely if this disIross is as bad as he says it is, it is better than starvation? For what dif- [

to kill an ox or to kill a blade of grass. All three actions reveal, an undeveloped attitude of mind towards living beings. Every living being today must be regarded as the temple of the Living God (i.e., divine Life), and as such is sacred. Man gains infinitely more than he loses by refusing to kill his brother man or his brother ox or his brother blade of grass, and that is why finally he will do none of these things. That is why pacifism, non-violence, and agape (pure, love) must inevitably conquer in the end. As the ancient Greek philosopher asserted: hate may drive the atoms, nay, all things, to infinite distances apart; but agape (love) will inevitably bring all things together again. For it is only when the whole cosmos is working harmoniously together, i.e., is completely healthy, that the individual parts can attain their maximum of well-being and thus be completely happy. The next point is that we live in a growing world in which we cannot realise perfection, but must be conjtent with merely making things better. The world is better when

WEST CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL TO THE EDITOR OF THE PKISS. Sir, —Reading your leader I notice you make reference to the West Christchurch householders renewing Iheir request. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the meeting was composed of parents and guardians of the children attending the school. It is pleasing to see a letter in "The Press" this morning by "Householder," and I agree with him that this alteration originated from inside the school itself, for no other purpose than to boost up the salaries. I can say without fear of contradiction that there never was any complaint about the status of the school within the last 30 years, until the intermediate department proved a failure.—Yours, etc., FORMER SCHOLAR. March 14, 1935.