CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 207, 3 August 1931, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.) . Si r ._Witn vnur permission 1 wisn to bring under notice the great game ot blun and pretence whicn is 6 oing on m our Parliament. lou. wm notice that it has been arranged that at next election the three leaders or the present parties are going tohereturii cd to politics. I hey would haie the public believe that this is the only point upon which they haie agreed, i venture to say that tney frame their policies mutually agreed upon to ensure bluffing the public. fortunately ior them, they are backed by lanabiding people, and whatever tney put on the Statute Book is abided byTake the recent unemployed legislation ; compare it in principle (not proportion) with 3D Lang's legislation in Australia. The principle is precisely the same; the argument also is precisely the same; they must have the monev. Yes, sir, and 1 venture to sav tnat before they have finished the\ will be after the same proportion as 3lr Lang was. Take tne methods oi spending the unemployed money so accumulated. All unemployed people are concentrated in the towns, and from there they are conveyed in motor buses to the various counties and other local bodies to perform in nearly every case useless or unproductive work. In times like these everyone knows peopie should economi.se. If one takes a drive along our roads one will see a lot of unrequired work on the roads, which are hanked in readiness for a tar-sealed or concrete thoroughfare, whichever will produce the most wealth for the Dominion. Is it not even to the extent of sin considering every producer of- every kind is starved for finance. It is noteworthy that there is one scheme, 4A, operated by the Unemployment Board that does assist production, but at the first opportunity this was reduced from a subsidy of ids per week to 10s per week from June 1, and now lasts only until the end of August next. Surely this is ridiculous considering one of the main factors to remedy the present trouble is more exports. I say one, because such is the case; there is one and only one remedy for the present trouble if we are going to remedv it ourselves instead ot waiting for the outside world to do it for us. Surely we can help ourselves? Such a scheme was put forward by the Farmers’ Union and has been passed on to the Government. This scheme would provide every producer in the Dominion with finance up to £SOO at 2i per cent and one per cent, sinking fund. The producer should he every man .or firm who produces anything for either local or export trade. There are, I understand, over 70,000 in the Dominion. Just imagine where you would find the unemployed if these 70,000 producers had extra’finance and had to spend 85 per cent, of it in labour. Such a scheme has been sent on to the Government and also published in the Press. In conclusion, sir, I challenge any member of Parliament or local public men to tell me why (through the medium of your paper) the scheme submitted bv the Farmers’ Union will not do all it claims to, and that is to overcome the present depression, and I will add make New Zealand the most prosperous Dominion in the world for the next fifty years at least.—l am, etC ’’ H. SCHREIBER.