ECONOMIC DELEGATION

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 10

ECONOMIC DELEGATION

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I have been wondering what Xew Zealand has done to be represented at the World Economic Conference by the delegates chosen. Mr. Forbes's economics are of the acrobatic type, and he showed his agility in this respect when he eomer-1 vaulted over the exchange question. Mr. Masters believes in the Board of Trade Act which enables the Government (other-1 wise the Minister of Industries and Com-1 merce, just now the Hon. R. Masters) to. < control every action of the business com- j inmiity. Professor Tocker can find in his I economics justification for forcibly raiting ' the exchange and justification also for the j vicious sliding scale of duties on wheat. The United States and Britain, France, i Italy, and Germany will dominate tho Conference, and all other countries will be obliged to fall into line. There is really no renson for putting the country to the expense of Bending two Ministers, and the others, to the Conference, more especially as there are more competent men on the spot. New Zealand's interest in other nations is restricted to dairy produce and frozen meat, and at the moment Mr. D. Jones, chairman of the Meat Board, and Mr. lorns, chairman of the Dairy. Board, arc in London, and these two with Sir Thomas Wilted, who knows the run of the ropes, would be a much more effective delegation than those who are leaving, by the Rangitata. The expense too would be very much less.—l am, etc., CRITIC. [The above letter has been abbreviated. -Ed.]