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WHEAT DUTIES. The ‘Manawatu Evening Standard” of Friday, July 18, in a long article on wheat production, warned its readers that “to allow the wheat-grower to go out of business rather than keep him in at the present cost to the consumer” might be falling out of the frying-pan into the fire. There is the fact, to begin with, that Australia is not always blessed with a bounteous harvest, and the “Standard” asks what the position of the North Island poultrymen and pig-raisers would be if the Australian crop failed. But even if New Zealand could get as much wheat from Australia as it wanted at a price it could pay, “that would mean something over two millions sterling a year going out of New Zealand,” and the “Standard” wonders what products from New Zealand would be given in exchange. We are practically shut out of their market by their tariff barrier, especially our potatoes and our butter, and “every importer knows to his sorrow” that when the balance of Imports is badly against us our imports cost more. It therefore concludes that “New Zealanders would be well advised to adopt as a national policy the principle that the Dominion should be self-contained so far as practicable in the matter of its chief food supplies. Of which wiieat is the most important of all.” This is so sound and wise that it is not necessary to carry . the argument any further; but If It wee® necessary to add anything, sufficient to remind the ‘ that the price of bread Is Wffhe —Christchurch -2/i/8O— Advt,