CO-OPERATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 8

CO-OPERATION

• (To the Editor.) Sir, —While many are advocating more or less drastic and destructive remedies for the present social and economic ills, have we not the power at hand to make things happier ,for all, i£ we would but apply, the simple yet splendid forces of common sense and co-operation to our varied needs. For instance, quite recently I visited one of the largest orchards in the North Island and saw fruit being thinned from the trees by the ton and cast into the ground as useless for marketing. What was there to prevent a group of local unemployed being put into the orchard to gather this second-grade fruit for distribution to those who cannot buy fruit at all? We are paving doctors to visit schools and advise parents that children should eat more fruit. Conld not a few boilers have been introduced to these orchards and jam made for distribution to the local relief depots? Our dairy farmers are -in desperate "raits because markets abroad are so dull. -Yet, with more co-operation and common sense* behind the industry there is a great potential ."home market" awaiting developments What is there to prevent the Unemployment Board buying up large quantities of butter and "offering an extra pound a week to every relief family a 6d a pound, paying the farmer 9d. If this was done it would be doubly blessed —to the farmer and to the relief family.— 1 am, etc., - . , TRUE* RELIEF.-