NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 21 April 1933, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES

Low Payments The statement that payments to relief workers in Taupo were the lowest in New Zealand was made by Dr. J. Scaife Armstrong, chairman of the Taupo Unemployment Committee, in introducing a deputation to the Hon. A. Hamilton, Minister of Employment, at Taupo. The Minister stated that the allocation certainly seemed low, and promised to have the matter reviewed. Car and Cycle Collide At the intersection of Russell street and Norbiton road, Foxton, on Monday evening last, a motor car driven by Mr K. Miller, of Dannevirkc, collided heavily with a bicycle ridden by Mr K. Botaroff, of Gladstone street, Foxton. The bicycle was smashed by the impact and the rider, who was thrown heavily on to the surface of the bitumen road, had a marvellous escape from very serious injury. After receiving medical attention the injured man was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital for an X-ray examination of an injury to a leg. He also suffered contusions and shock. • Question of Quotas In a discussion at the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington recently, Mr R. S. Chadwick, Danncvirke said it was true that many farmers,' and a large section of the public, did not understand the position in regard to quotas. It must be understood that New Zealand could not have it both ways. Every country in the world had increased its tariffs since the war, and England had been the only country to which to send our produce. Could it be seriously suggested that New Zealand could keep its surplus products until the British people could vc-nsume it? The great failing was on the part of New Zealand in not taking its quota of imports. At present it was useless putting unemployed on the land, because every surplus they produced above what they could themselves consume was unsaleable.