BELGIAN MOTORS.

Franklin Times, Volume XVII, Issue 73, 29 June 1927, Page 4

BELGIAN MOTORS.

THE action of the NVailemata Power Board in ordering • : twenty Belgian motors for Kaukapakapa dairy farmers because they could be purchased for £2 less each than those of British make, should not be. allowed to go unquestioned. A matter of £■!() only may appear to he no great moment, but the principle involved is of huge importance. We sell practically all our exportable produce to Great Britain, and the common decencies of behaviour demand Ilia I we should take British goods in return. Bui quite apart from any question of decency, self-preservation demands . that wc should do all wo can to foster British trade. England can and will buy our produce—Belgium will not. Every purchase we make from 'a foreign country lessens the Motherland’s power, to purchase, from us. Weakening our best market is the worst of all possible economic policies. If the example of the Waiternata Power Board is generally followed, farmers will lose a great deal more Ilian Ihe paltry trifles they save.