THE FARMER’S DUTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 234, 2 October 1929, Page 4

THE FARMER’S DUTY

RECIPROCAL TRADE POLICY BUYING BRITISH GOODS. The prosperity of New Zealand depends upon the He is well and truly named the backbone of the country. His welfare is governed by the markets of the Empire, main among them being those of the Motherland. The obvious deduction is that if all is not well in Old England there is a corresponding downward tendency in the prosperity of this Dominion and all others under the British flag. No motto should be more appealing then to the farmer than “Buy British Goods.” Every penny invested to aid the British manufacturer and the British worker will stimulate the buying power of a community ready to absorb the raw products from New Zealand. Every penny invested to help foreign countries with no reciprocal trade policy with New Zealand is a penny thrown away. It has taken years and years to build up the trade now being done between the Dominion and Great Britain. Wool, butter, cheese, meat and fruit, the raw products of the soil And a market at the hub of Empire. The farmer of this country looks to his fellow man in the British Isles to support him and it is nothing, if not a reasonable plea, to ask that the New Zealand farmer reciprocate by purchasing goods made in the land where his produce is consumed. “Buy British Goods and Support British People” holds good in every land the destinies of which are wrapped in the folds of the Union Jack.