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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 201, 18 November 1920, Page 2

PLUMBING A. OATES (Bv Exam) Tanks and Ilut Water Specialties. Estimates Given. A. Oates, Opposite station uimay Mrs J. GRIFFITHS will open 'a Laundry in Matamata from - JULY lotli , Work may bo left at Messrs Davies Bros’. „ furniture establishment, ami will bo delivered within a week of receipt. Matamata Butchery My Meat is "ood, My measure just; I wish to plcasft? But citnnot trust. For I have trusted To my sorrow, So pay to-day; I’ll trust to-morrow. W. C. VINCENT Cash Butcher* Ni ATASVI ATA Guaranteed You stand to gain by giving our Seeds a trial. Particulars of guarantee of Quality on application PRICES REASONABLE Sure to Grow Manures for all Crops ROBERTSON BROS Auckland, P.O. Box 047 Representative for this District LENNOX E. JOY MATAMATA THE , SECRET OF SOUND BUSINESS may be found at TIBAU for there EXPEDITION & EFFICIENCY, tliOyfoundation stones of satisfaction in business to customer and, firm alike, are always observed by * A. J. BLACKSMITH & WH l&fcg*ffKlGllT TIR A U Large Up-to-date Workshop Fully Equipped Competent Stall' No job too small—none too luigo Agent for all Farm Implements Box 8 PI ion e 4, THE ESSENCE OF QUALITY Is to be obtained at ose Bros. LIMITED riRAU and OKOROIRE Rhone 8, l'J and 88 Where the largest stocks aro kept. Farmers and Housewives may deal with ROSE BROS., Ltd., and assure themselves that they are , getting values the equal ot those to bo obtained in the big centres.

KEEP THE Champion Standard Unfurled And Success will Continue The Fallacy of Free Trade I OFTEN notice m the press some of my people are advocating Free Trade, which would be feasible if it were universal. You know the trouble England got. iuto through allowing the dumping of German surplusage on its markets and the miserable pittance its artisans were getting. America was not quite so “ philanthropic,” and has waxed fat on England’s shortsighted policy. The Americans arc noted for “ points,” hut invariably they are for themselves. Whydo not free traders advocate the removal of the alien poll tax ' If it were done, it would permit of a much lower rate of wage being paid, and a lower cost of pro* duetion; and, besides, we would have the cost of maintenance of those subjects* in stead of their surplusages in goods, with the result that wo would soon be brought down to the Asiatic level. Japan, India, and China are making rapid strides in manufacturing, and with cheap labour, augmented with modern machinery, they will ultimately be a menace to the British artisan ; but’ evidently this is of little moment to as they appear anxious for and goods without considering its disastrous effects to the British workers. It is obvious the products of the soil iimst be amply protected against foreign importations from countries where land is low.in price and labor cheap, otherwise the Dominion must suffer. I quite believe if you were now to offer made-in-Germany goods at a trifle loss than those of British manufacture, patriotism, in some iustauees, would vanish like smoke. 1 am, V. AUCKLAND