PRIMARY PRODUCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 5

PRIMARY PRODUCE

EXPORT PROM N.Z. . CURTAILMENT IN- SIGHT- ? MR. -SAVAGE’S BELIEF (Per Press Association.) , \ INVERCARGILL, this day. In the course of a complimentary luncheon tendered to him by the Southjaml Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mr. M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition,' sabl that whether we liked it. or not"; New Zealand was in for some kind of.curtailment so far as the export of primate produce was concerned. • • Britain had vast interests in many parts of the world, and some. of her mofley was.'infested in countries which were in opposition- to New Zealand 1 m the expoftlpf primary .produce. ’Britain had, for distance,. £1,005.000,tAX) invested in South America, and could only draw interest in the products of the Latin Republics. A certain outlet for New Zealand could, however, lie obtained in New Zealand' itself. j So fan as selling to the East was concerned, he said he did not approve of if. “If we sell to the East, we do so at the expense, of the. West,”’ Air. i Savage added. “For everything we sell to the East we must take something from the East, and usually "it is something which we should he talcing from Britain.” By selling to the East, he contended, New Zealand-would be cutting lifer main market -from under her feet, j “Moreover,!’, lie said, “we should be ; linking ourselves with■ countries whose standard of living' was low, a fact which must reflect upon the standard of living in , New Zealand.' The objects of the Labor Party were first to develop New Zealand, and then to develop the British Commonwealth of Nations.” On the question of tariffs, Mr. Savagesaid tha’t when goods were being brought into New Zealand which must be brought in, there could be no argument in favor of a tariff. When however, it was a question of protecting New Zealand industries there was every argument m favor of a tariff.