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Southland Times, Issue 23178, 20 April 1937, Page 8

“Without money, how could a dentist get a living, except by drawing, say, three teeth for a bag of potatoes, or a small tooth for a couple of pounds of sausages,” said Mr P. L. Porter, addressing the Canterbury Economic Society (reports The Press). “Life without money would indeed soon be reduced to its simplest and most primitive terms. A slave State could conceivably exist without a means of exchange, the slaves having no opportunity of exercising freedom of choice. A completely communistic State would also have no need of money, all needs being supplied by the central authority and each person receiving according to the dictates of those in control—again no freedom of choice. A third example would be that of a primitive race living so close to nature that choice would be eliminated by scarcity.”