CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE

it is being passed round quickly. There is plenty of work for money in New Zealand, and while there is what sense is there in storing it till such time that there will be less work for it to do? Reverting to my remark that there is plenty of work to be done, I might mention that there is a large field for employment in research and also in the destruction or control of pests and ' diseases. A large percentage of the products of the soil are lost every year through weeds and . insects and fungoid disease, but under the "rugged individualism" of our expert economists there is no place for any social service that cannot show dividends in £ s. d. Social uplift, contentment, good will, ambition, and all the higher attributes of life are barred from the gospel of our commercialists unless they can be expressed in terms of gold or its equivalent in buying power.—l am, etc., H. SYDNEY. [The latter part of the correspondent's argument is answered by the fact that research and the control of pests and diseases has been greatly extended within recent years under the, aegis of Governments accepting econo- ' mic orthodoxy.—lSdJ. •