TRADE WITH BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22065, 22 September 1933, Page 9

TRADE WITH BRITAIN

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I quite agree with “ Common Sense,” whose reasoned epistle you published in yesterday’s Daily Times. Too many people in New Zealand believe that we export butter and mutton to Britain in order to earn a profit from the business, whereas we really do it out of pure kindness of heart, for by sending our goods abroad we deliberately miss our best market —the local home one in New Zealand. What we ought to do is to stop sending any more goods to Britain for a while. “That would ‘larn’n ’ them!” Then we could use all our own butter and mutton in New Zealand, which is our best market. To enable us to pay for it we could then take in each other’s washing! I would suggest to “ Common Sense ” that the subject of which he writes is exercising the minds of many people -today, and it appears to me that the subject will never be properly solved until it is approached in a broader and less selfish way than most people are doing to-day. Is there not one amongst our Empire statesmen who can put forward a plan which is worked out for the benefit of the Empire as a whole and not for the benefit of any one country or sectional interest? — I am, etc., Empire First. Dunedin, September 21.