BRIGHTER PICTURE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 February 1927, Page 12

BRIGHTER PICTURE.

MINISTER THINKS PROSPECTS GOOD. BUT “BUY BRITISH.” NELSON, Feb. 3. Referring to his speech at the openhm of tho Takaka Show to-day to the business out'looiv for the iiituio, the Hon. G. J. Anderson said he thought the prospects were good. "While fancy prices did not rule, yet the various markets for dairying products were firm, and farmers could produce butter and cheese and wool on a definite paying basis. The new solidity that was apparent in the markets precluded speculation or deflation in land. Concerning trade from a broader point of view, the Minister said that unless our exports were at least seven millions in excess of our imports the country was not prospering. It tv as therefore necessary to foster the goodwill of our best customer —Britain —by purchasing her goods wherever possible We should buy British cars and not purchase from America, who dealt with us to a very small extent-, and had prevented us having a, market in that country by imposing a heavy protective tariff on our goods. Many ill-advised critics were urging the Government to bring in for settlement large areas of poor third and fourth class land, but it was the Government's poliev to keep men at present on the land on their holdings, and not open up the difficulty of making it pav. One form of assistance being given in this direction was bv the Government’s endeavour to supplv the fnimers with manure as cheaply as possible The Cawthron Institute in Nelson was also doing important work that would be of great benefit to settlers.