THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23365, 3 December 1937, Page 15

THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY

TO THE EDITOR ■ Sir, —In your issue of this morning you report that at a dairy sales campaign at Leicester, the High Commissioner, after enumerating the manufactures which New Zealand received from Leicester, said: “ We want to buy more, but we want two-way trade.” What balderdash in the face of the fact, as reported by you in the same issue, that “ the New Zealand Government informed the British Government that it is contemplating increasing the duty on imported leather and footwear for adults, or imposing a duty and quota restrictions.”! Surely we are becoming tied up into knots that are going to be very difficult to unravel. Quota restrictions are the last thing we should even mention, let alone contemplate. I wonder how many of the every-day electors realise that we/are. at present, enjoying a preferential duty of 15s per cwt (over IJd per lb) upon all our butter going into England, and an equivalent amount on cheese. As a matter of fact, England has treated us most generously, while it would appear as if our selfishness were going to land us in a quagmire.—l am, etc., Dairyman.