CORESPONDENOE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 17 April 1930, Page 8

CORESPONDENOE

MORE AMERICAN PRODUCTS (To tile Editor, Star) Sir.—Tlicv woollen inr.nii i-tsJ ire-i's of New Zealand are having a- very hard row to line against rival textiles and foreign competition.. One firm af, least lias gone into liquidation. Yet here in New Zealand a wool growing country, American cotton blankets manufactured in, Boston are being retailed. One can only conclude from ) his fact that the mediants and retailers of fins country, while discharging hands aaid complaining of bad trade are not only blind to (heir own interests .but for the sake .of a few immediate pounds they are rilling to soli their country’s industrial future to the only nation that came ouf of the war with a, profit. In every branch, of industry the story is the same. An American writter. Penny, recently published a, book entitled “America, conquers Britain.” He says that war between America, and Britain is not .so unthinkable as politicians and others so continually state, and that, in fact America is much more likely to go to war with Britain than with any other country. There are instances, also, of American trickery in the fight for raw material. When the mighty Spreadeagle sends forth her mechanical offspring t° scatter bombs on these lovely isles, will it comfort New Zealanders to reflect, as t hey hide their heads beneath cotton blankets, that we gave her the gold with which to buy the bombs?

But I forgot! One doesn't speak of war now. Peace (fa-lk is in fashion. Tt was very fashionable-, t.oo at The Hague before tho last war.—l am, etc, ALL WOOI/.