TOO MODEST

Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 April 1935, Page 6

TOO MODEST

OPINION OF NEW ZEALANDERS. TARIFF DANGERS. LONDON, Thursday. “You New Zealanders are too modest about yourselves, your products, and your country,” said Mr Malcolm MacDonald before giving a glowing description of his visit to the Dominion at an exhibition of apples at the New Zealand Office to mark the inauguration of the season.

The exhibition Avas gracefully opened by Lady Hewart, wife of the Lord Chief Justice and formerly Miss Jean Stewart. 1

The New Zealand High Commissioner, Sir James Parr, who presided, referred to the hardships of growers, who had to be content with Id per pound for apples selling retail in London for 7d to lOd.

He hoped, he said, that the meat conference would not abandon the regulation of supplies for a bare tariff without restrictions. There were certain obvious cases, such as fruit, lamb, and mutton, in which regulation was clearindicated as the most appropriate remedy in order to get payable prices. “The tariff always has tlio danger,” he said, “that, while raising prices for the English farmer, it may stabilise the Dominion farmers at a permanent-ly-low unpayable level of prices. New Zealand desires to help the English farmer in every wav, but not by methods which might result in the present bankrupt prices for New Zealand produce becoming a permanent condition.”