MEN AND MARKETS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 November 1927, Page 5

MEN AND MARKETS

WHAT AUSTRALIA NEEDS.

EMPIRE CO-ORDINATION. MR A MERY’S ADVOCACY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, Nov. 16. The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Ame-ry has returned to Sydney. Addressing the Millions Club, lie reiterated the argument that what Australia wonted was men -and markets. Dealing with the question of unemployment, he said that it was a- mistake to assume that unemployment here or in the Old- Country was due to over-population. It may be due to a defective balance between the different industries, but it was- not due to over-population, as such immigration was the only effective cure for unemployment, so long as the right class of immigrants l were obtained and became productive units. Both England and Australia needed an outside market. When they looked -at- the outside- markets of the world and; the tariffs that were raised against England- and Australia and at the competition of the lower-paid- labour, it was well that they should consider whether they -should combine -some- of the advantages of a wide- outside market with the- security of the home market by making the Empire the wider home market for them all. If they worked separately and anyhow their producing power was lost, and their trade went to countries that had mo intention of buying from them- if they could help it. They had to harness and co-ordinate their power. “If only we can get together, we can make use of the enormous natural resources of the British Empire with results that will surprise us and stagger the world.”

PURCHASES AND SENTIMENT.

LONDON, Nov. 15

In the discussion oil merchandise marks in the House of Commons, Mr Hall asked on behalf of the. retailers whether it- would he in the interests of the Dominions to label poor Empire fruit beside high- grade foreign -articles. Mr Fa-raker: There would be a- difference in price. I do not think labelling would be detrimental. Another retailer asserted that New Zealand was trying to bring other Dominions into line with her wrappers. It was a question of jeaousy, and the Brit-isli retailer was being used as a cat’s paw. Mr Hall: Whatever we say about patriotism it i-s a fourpenny touch that goes.

The chairman: Is there not -a -scrap of sentiment? A mother with five children does not buy (Sentimentally, hut wants the best value for her monev.