CAUSES AND EFFECT,

Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 December 1930, Page 4

CAUSES AND EFFECT,

i(To tile Editor.) iSir, —It may be of interest to your readers to know that Iwatkin a-quarter of a mile of the Operai House on the day of the. Farmers ’ 'Rally there were 2'St ears; 567 of them were- products of U.S.A. and) -Canada, or rather made in U.S.A. and assembled in Canada, four were Italian and .13 British. Now, sir, perhaps people do -not know that a baby car purchased in New Zealand means employment to one man for one year in England; so, taking the 'foreign cars at the value -of two ibaby cars, it means that 54-2 men would be employed for one year—men who are now unemployed. Allowing that each man bought two pounds of butter per week, it would mean that about o 42001 bs. of butter per annum (would bo taken off the market. In H9i29, 1-9,000 ears were sold in New Zealand. Them there i‘s foreign machinery and) small goods which 'could be put on the list. Think what it means? Let me ask you: Whait would happen if the English market were -closed to us, not by tariff walls, but by the purchasing power of England being so demlnished t-hat they could not purchase our produce? Sir, we must -d'o what we condemned the English m-anufadturer for not doing—make what the buyer wants, not what we want -England makes a. -ear that suits us now. We must make cheese, to suit them. It’s -no use talking. W-e must (be up and doing- before it -is too late, for if our market failed us what: would we do-?- Would the Yanks help us. No!' 'So lot us -be tip and doing. Buy British, whether it bo a. pot scraper or a. motor tear, and help ourselves. —-T -am. etc.. iH. ,T. TTXikAY. ‘Tokaora.