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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 6

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. npHE DOMINION'S SALVATION IhE DOMINION'S SALVATION IS MIXED FARMING. IS MIXED FARMING. OUR BOYS ARE RETURNING AND IT IS SUGGESTED TO PUT THEM ON THE LAND, BUT SOME INDUCEMENTS MUST BE OFKGHED TO GET THEM TO ADOPT THIS MODE OF LIVELIHOOD AFTER UPHOLDING THE PRESTIGE OF THE DOMINION, WHILE WE REMAINED AT HOME IN SAFETY AND COMFORT. THE FIRST ESSENTIALS ARE PAYABLE LAND (AND NOT LAND THAT HAS PROVED UNPAYABLE), GOOD ROADS, AND ADEQUATE RAILWAY SERVICE, AND THE MAKING OF ROADS AND RAILWAYS WOULD ENABLE FUNDS TO BE RAISED TOWARDS THE VENTURE. THE NEXT IS AMPLE PROTECTIVE DUTIES ON THE PRODUCTS OF THE SOIL, WHICH ARE JUST AS NECESSARY AS THE ALIEN POLL TAX TO PREVENT LOWERING TO THE ASIATIC LEVEL. OUR PRE-WAR MAN-POWER WAS IN THE VICINITY OF 275,000 TO 300,000, AND SINCE ABOUT 110,000 BRAVELY RESPONDED TO THE EMPIRE'S CALL, IS IT NOT SUICIDAL FOR US Tb .REMAIN ACQUIESCENT WITH OUR SMALt POPULATION OF ONE MILLION AND ITS HEAVY INDEBTEDNESS? WHEN AMERICA (INCLUDING THE ARGENTINE), CANADA. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN, WITH THEIR TEEMING MIL-. LIONS, AND IN SOME INSTANCES VERY CHEAP LABOUR, ARE EQUIPPED WITH CAPITAL, BN'TERPRISE, AND MACHINERY, WHAT WILL BE OUR OUTLOOK'UNLESS WE BESTIR OURSELVES, AS OUR ALLIES WILL LOSE NO OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE TRADE? AT PRESENT IN THIS FERTILE COUNTRY WE ARE SHORT OF WHEAT, OATS, CHAFF, AND POTATOES, AND DRAWING FROM AUSTRALIA WITH SCARCITY OF TONNAGE, AND HIGH. RATES OF FREIGHT, AS WITH- ; OUT EFFICIENT LABOUR AND ENCOURAGEMENT THOSE STAPLE COMMODITIES WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE IN THE DOMINION, UNLESS BY A MIRACLE.. STR JOSEPH WARD HAS STATED HE INTENDS GOING IN FOR AN AERIAL SERVICE. BUT DOUBTLESS THE CABINET MAY DECIDE, AFTER MATURE CONSIDERATION, TO SUPPLEMENT OUR PRESENT' INADEQUATE RAILWAY ONE WITH AIR. OR LET IT OUT ON HIKE TO PIONEER SET- ■ TLERS IN THE ROADLESS NORTH, AS. WITHOUT AMPLE PROTECTIVE DUTIES IT WOULD DO ALL REQUIRED. WE HAVE A TIDY NATIONAL DEBT WHICH WILL BE OF A STUBBORN CHARACTER AND WILL REQUIRE SKILFUL HANDLING, AND BY LAUNCHING OUT WITH REPRODUCTIVE WORKS-BUT NOT LIKE THE OTIRA TUNNEL ONE FOR PROSPECTIVE STRATEGICAL PURPOSES AS WE HAVE HAD A SURFEIT OF WAR AND ITS HORRORS-THEY WOULD PAY INTEREST ON INVESTMENTS AND PROBABLY LEAVE A SURPLUS TOWARDS REDUCTION OF DEBT, BUT TO ALLOW OUR RESOURCES TO BE DEPLETED ONLY ADDS TO OUR INDEBTEDNESS, AND IT IS JUST AS LOGICAL TO EXPECT A SAILING SHIP TO MAKE A VOYAGE WITHOUT SAILS AS TO ENSURE SAFETY AND PROFIT. ! • ' P. VIRTUE, MANAGER, NORTHERN ROLLING MILLING CO., LTD., AUCKLAND.