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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 223, 16 August 1930, Page 9

(Published by Arrangement) WHEAT DUTIES The “Manawatu Evening Standard” o£ Friday, July 18th, in a long article on wheat production, warned its readers that “to allow the wheat-grower to go out of business rather than keep him in at the present cost to the consumer” might be falling out of the frying-pan into the fire. There is the fact, to begin .with, that Australia is not always blessed with a bounteous harvest, and the “Standard” asks what the position of the North Island poultrymen and pig-raisers would bo if the Australian crop failed. But even if New Zealand could got as much wheat from Australia as it wanted at a price it could pay, “that would mean something over two millions sterling a year going.out of New Zealand,” and the “Standard” wonders what products from Now Zealand would be given in exchange. We are practically shut out of their market by their tariff barrier, especially our potatoes and our butter, and “every importer knows to his sorrow” that when the balance of imports is badly against us our imports cost more. It therefore concludes that “New Zealanders would bo well advised to adopt as a national policy the principle that the Dominion should bo self-contained so far as practicable in the matter of its chief food supplies, of which wheat is the most important,of all.” This is so sound and wise that it is not necessary to carry the argument any further; but if it were necessary to add anything, it would bo sufficient to remind the North Island that tho price of bread is higher in Canada and America, which have dollar wheat, than it is in New Zealand, whore wheat costs a dollar and a half.-—Christchurch “Press.”

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