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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1930, Page 7

THE OLT> SPECIFIC. Tlie closet* settlement cry is an easy one to make, but while the public may be gulled with the advice to use “the old specific,” thinking people will believe that closer settlement in a period of rising prices is a proposition very much different from closer settlement when prices are below production costs. As Mr Weston says, the sacrifices must be universal. The farmer has made and is making his ; and unless we tackle the money level of wages and the higher incomes, we cannot console ourselves with the thought that we are readjusting our affairs to meet what may be properly called the baisis of postwar reconstruction, for that, we verily believe, is the plane to which we are coming. The world has soelit a long time settling down, but the beginning of the real era of peace must be on a solid base, and it is to that base we are coming by this painful process of readjustment.—“ Southland Times.” Xmas presents to suit everybody at the Economical Crockery shop, don’t miss your chance of getting these lovely gifts put by, because a small deposit will secure any article at the shop for variety and value. Economical Crockery shop. P. Stephens, proprietress,—Advt>.