GOOD PROSPECTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1927, Page 6

GOOD PROSPECTS

DOMINION'S FUTURE

"BUY BRITISH GOODS"

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

NELSON, 3rd February

Referring in his speech at the opening of the Takaka Show to-day to the business outlook for the future, the Hon. G. J. Anderson said Ue thought the prospects were good. "While fancy prices did not rule, yet the various markets for dairying products were firm, and farmers could produce butter and cheese and wool on a definite paying basis. The new solidity that was apparent in the markets precluded speculation or deflation in land.

Concerning trade from a broader point of view, the Minister said that unless our exports were at least seven millions in excess of our imports the country was not prospering.*, It was therefore necessary to foster the goodwill of our best customer—Britain—by purchasing her goods whenever possible. We should buy British ears and not purchase from America, who dealt with us to a very small extent, and had prevented, us having a market in that country by imposing a heavy protective tariff on our goods.

Many ill-advised critics wore urging the Government to bring in for settlement large areas of poor third and fourth class land, but it was the Government's policy to keep men at present on the land on their holdings, and not open up the difficulty of making it pay. One form of assistance being given in this direction was the Government's endeavour to supply the farmers with manure as cheaply as possible. The Cawthron Institute in Nelson, was also doing important work that would be of "great benefit to settlers.