QUOTAS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22010, 17 January 1935, Page 13

QUOTAS

Sir. —I have read with much interest the discussions on quotas in your columns. .Mr. J. E. Leeson reopens the discussion from a new angle with a practical and intelligent letter. This is answered by "Imperialist" with a lot of nonsense. F was speaking recently to a friend just returned from a trip to England. He informs me that the English farmers are not worrying over quotas; they have a guaranteed price for their produce, so why should they worry? Now, "Imperialist." if the British Government can guarantee the prices to English farmers why can it not to the Dominion farmers? We are all supposed to be one and the same Empire, but New Zealand farmers cannot get a living out of sentiment. What we want here in New Zealand is a Government of business men, not politicians. Our present iot can pass laws and regulations in profusion, but do nothing to help us live. If they were to tell England that our butter was worth Is per pound, and that in future our overseas debts would be paid in butter at that price, use it or dump it in the sea, the financiers at Home would soon see that they jrot- full value. In this way the Dominion farmers would make a decent living, employ more labour, making for prosperity, and pay the overseas debts. We have discarded the gold standard, why not use the butter standard ? A. D. McD.