NEW ZEALAND'S PRODUCTS
Sir, —There seems to be a rooted idea that we should" send out of this country the best of everything we produce. Your correspondent, "W.D.M.," wants to send to Britain "not a single pound of any but our finest quality butter, the lower grade butter to be consumed here at a much less price, resulting in an enormously increased local consumption and a corresponding benefit to the health of the community." I think that if we consume the finest quality butter here it would benefit the community's health much more than the lower grade product, and health should be the first consideration. If Robinson Crusoe had pursued our present policy of giving the best of his food in retafn for something he wanted and then refused to take the latter without taxing it so as to make it dearer, he uxmld have been regarded as non compos mentis. W 8 should have more §elf-xespect "than to be satisfied with anything less than the finest quality butter on our tables" in exchange for our best services. The same applies to our other products. We should consume far more of everything, in view of the abundance produced. Our failure to do so shows that there is something radically wrong with our economic life. Eight Okdeb.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21576, 22 August 1933, Page 12
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