What We Grow Fat On.
Dear Sir,—Mr E. J. Howard, in his last article, wrote: “ There are those who still think we grow fat by what we export.” What did he mean? Does he suggest we should cease to export? If he does, how does he think we are going to get the many things we can’t produce, and which we need? We can perhaps produce tea. at about 25s per pound We could also grow' cocoa beans and coffee berries at a price that only the very richest could afford to pay. We might grow rubber in specially constructed houses at a price that would make it impossible for an ordinary individual to buy bike tyres or motor tyres or any sort of rubber goods. We can ; t grow cotton in New Zealand. Yet cotton goods are w’hat the workers use. How are we going to get these needs and a host of others if we don't export? We don’t grow fat by what we export. But we make life comfortable. We would have a poor living indeed if we didn’t export. Does he want to see the people brought down to the low standard of living that would follow if exports ceased? We have been too long away from the trees for that.—l am. etc., CRITIC.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20453, 5 November 1934, Page 6
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