MR CAMPBELL’S CARELESSNESS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —This is s the silly season for would-be politicians, and Mr A. Campbell, Labour aspirant for Chalmers, certainly adds to the general hilarity. Speaking at Green Island on Monday night, Mr Campbell is reported as saying that he was opposed to immigration at the present time. He states: “ If they increased the rate of pay and gave the people a living wage they would consume all the farmers grew without importing people.” (Applause.) Mr Campbell must be very ignorant of the position to make such a statement as this. He should have looked up the figures. Hero they are: — Percentage Percentage Commodity. Consumed Exported, in N.Z. Wool 2.38 97.62 Butter ... 20.26 79.74 Cheese ... 3.16 96.84 Mutton ... 46.98 53.02 Lamb 4.4 95.6 Beef 65.2 34.8 I am not a great beef eater, and might manage to eat half as much beef again as I do now. No matter what the rate of ray pay is increased to, I refuse to—indeed, I cannot—eat 20 times as much lamb, four times as much butter, or 30 times as much cheese. And as for wool—well, the hot season is coming on, and 1 refuse to sleep under a huge pile of blankets or wear 30 suits of clothes.—l am, etc., i True Bill. November 20.
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Evening Star, Issue 22191, 20 November 1935, Page 14
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