DEAR WHEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20601, 27 June 1930, Page 16

DEAR WHEAT.

Sir,—Everywhere there ara ominous rumours that wages must fall, and perhaps eventually they must. But how can, wages - fall to & low level if •" the staff of ■ life, the 7d loaf, i 3 the dearest bread in the world. Governments,, by protecting the wheat growers of New Zealand, allow all people connected with grain business unlimited means of acquiring wealth at the expense of the rest of the population. One needs only to visit Canterbury to see the prosperity arid Wealth abounding there, the outcome of the dear wheat. Then consider those two important industries,, poultry and pig raising. How can a living be made ont of either with fowl-wheat at 7s lOd and 8s a bushel, and all forms of grain food correspondingly high ? This, when the rest of the world has more cheap, firstclass wheat than it knows what to do with. * One must look to the country if New Zealand is going to win through to prosperity, and the would-be small producers, after a hopeless struggle," are leaving their holdings in great numbers, and are looking to. the towns and cities for employment. So our Government, with their foolish protection of grain, are successfully crippling and hampering otherwise productive industries and are creating unemployed. The abolition of this duty was one of the platform promises of the United Government. The commission that was held was a hopeless farco from the beginning. The people of New Zealand should awaken to the position and demand justice. Starved Out.