MR. TROUP'S ECONOMICS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 83, 9 April 1931, Page 10

MR. TROUP'S ECONOMICS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Some electors thought when Mr. G. A. Troup was announced as a candidate for Parliament that .he would make a good member as members go; but disillusionment came quickly, due to his crude expressions at a preliminary canter .before the Junior Reform Club. His : declared policy stamps him as an ordinary party politician, with inspissated ideas of economics. Mr. Troup says didactically that every industry is dependent on money created by the farmer, therefore local industry should not be helped. Not correct, but let it go as an illustration of Mr. Troup's preference for supporting industries of other countries rather than our own. He forgets, too, that a great measure of support for the farmer with infinitely better prices than he obtains abroad comes from local consumption, by those engaged in other than farming pursuits. As Mayor, Mr. Troup's experience with unemployed should have shown him how necessary it is that industries should thrive in this country for the benefit of inhabitants, rather than that our money be sent overseas to keep Continental factories going at top in foreign places that do not buy New' Zealand produce. I suggest that Mr. Troup's electioneering slogan should be "Let Importers Flourish."—l am, etc., W. NORTH.