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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20627, 28 July 1930, Page 10

(Published by Arrangement.) WHEAT DUTIES. The iMunawutu Evening Standard of I'riclay, .July 18, in a long article on wheat production, warned its readers thai "to allow (ho. wheat grower (o go out of business rather than keep him in at the piesnnl cost to the comsuiiiei:" rni>rlit lie falling out of the frying pan into the lire. There is the fact, to begin with, tint Australia is not. always messed with a bounteous harvest, and t lie Standard asks what (ho position of the North Island ponltryinen and pig raisers would be if (lie Australian crop failed. But even if New Zealand could get as much wheat from Australia as it wanted at a price it could pay, "that would mean something over two millions sterling it year going out of New Zealand." and tlie Standard wonders what products from New Zealand would be given in exchange. We arc 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 be well advised to adopt as a national policy the principle that the Dominion should be 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 anvlhing, it would be suflicienl to remind the North Island that tin: price of In cad is higher in Canada and America, which have dollar wheat, than it is m New Zealand, where wheat costs n dollar and a-lialf.—Christchurch Press, 22/7/30.