"COUNTY" COMMUNITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 6

"COUNTY" COMMUNITIES

Co-operation between group settlements in Empire oversea countries and communities in the . Mother Country is suggested in the "county" plan comriiended by Dean Inge. He thinks that in .Australia "self-con-tained 'county' communities of the right type would be successful." An English county would take special interest in' the "bit of itself" established in Australia or New Zealand. "Counties would be proud to'be interested in their kinsfolk and would insist on buying only Australian goods." On, other occasions it has been pointed out that the urge to reciprocal buying could be. made very strong if reciprocity were presented in a clear, convincing light, as when a New Zealand rural order for British machinery employs 500 British factory employees, who.might well be asked to reciprocate, bybuying , New Zealand butter, cheese, apples, etc. If orders for manufactures were accompanied by an appeal for reciprocal buying by workpeople, such opportunities would be capitalised for the benefit of Empire trade. But Dean Inge's idea goes beyond the bread-and-butter appeal of the moment. It enlists the help of the permanent appeal of kith and kin, and relies on a relationship which ocean distances cannot break.