WAIKERIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19549, 31 January 1927, Page 6

WAIKERIA.

Sir, —I submit the correct way of pronouncing tho Maori name Waikeria, in answer to letter in Saturday's Herald — Wy or y, Kay or Keli, ree, ah. Thus Y keh ree ah, or Wy keli ree ah. Wm. Brown Guxmer. TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY. Sir, —Light must be spreading when representative business men in Wellington declare for a " revenue " tariff, and oppose all duties intended to have a " protective " incidence. A decade or two ago protection was swallowed whole by practically everyone in the Dominion, but a change has come over the scene, and we have now indications that the business community is joining the farming interests, and will oppose a bold front to the unsound and unfair policy of trade restriction, trade regulation, industryburdening and consumption-checking, which goes by the name of tariff protection. It cannot be too often pointed out that tariffs cannot " foster" industry, secondary or otherwise, taken as a whole, whatever benefits they may confer on sectional interests. New South Wales, at the end of her free trade career (1901) produced, in manufacturing industries a greater value of goods per head of her population than was tho case for the rest of Australia under high protection. Protectionist theories will not stand either logical or practical test when made under fair test conditions. Free Trade.