FREE TRADE.
To the Editor of the Evening Stab.
gin, As many have not carefully enquired into the causes lor establishing free trade in the old country, it would not perhaps be out of place to say a few words respecting it. The old country, as far as free trade is concerned, and the benefits ifc deserves from it will riot bear contrasting * with, this country. Ours is a country with an overgrown population, requiring more things for the use and consumption of the people than its limited space will produce. This wa9 the main reason why the ports of Great Britian were'thrown op>-n to other countries, and not Bimply for the sake of competition to effect a reduction in the price of articles of her. mauufac'.ure and growth. Now New Zealand is large enough to produce all she' requires for the consumption of her people, and abounds in natural resources. We do not yet want free trade here, we must be self-dependant and reliant first, and until we are compelled to fall back upon our own exertions to^produce sufficient to meet our requirements, we shall continue in our helpless state, and have to" pay through the nose to other countries for what we are too idle to realise for ourselves from the natural source. —I aui, &c;.
NEW ZEAUINDEB,
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 255, 2 November 1870, Page 2
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