THE PEOPLE'S BREAD

Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 10

THE PEOPLE'S BREAD

WHEAT TARIFF CONDEMNED

(By Telegraph.) ' , (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. "Four years' experience at social work, during which tinio I have granted over 23,000 interviews to people seeking food, has convinced me of the utter futility of organised ■ charity as a j moans of feeding the multitude of unemployed," said the Key. C.' G. Scrimgcour at the Methodist Central Mission last evening. "The amount given away yearly in charity is simply staggering, and yet it is far eclipsed by the greater amount that is taken from people in an over-charge for bread. Daylight robbery docs not adequately describe this iniquitous process. It is robbery under cover of a statement 'for the protection of New Zealand wheatgrowcrs.' Christ's practical mind was always working on theproblom of the people's bread,'and if Hp came to New Zealand to-day He would have some very hard things to say to those- responsible for the exorbitant price people are compelled to pay for their, principal article' of diet. "Are we, then, to go on in the same vicious circle while the 'Government grants favours to powerful vested interests by way of protective tariffs?" In a critical period such as the present, said Mr. Scrimgeour, it is not enough to accept a promise of the Prime Minister that something will be done a year hence.