PRESS COMMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1927, Page 1

PRESS COMMENTS.

Tho New Zealand Trade Preference League will hate reason for satisfaction when its campaign products results on both sides of shop-counters--when New Zealaiuhiiade goods are placed in the foreground of shop displays and the salesman offers the loc-ally-produced article before its foreign competitor. The latter should indeed he reserved until its production is expressly desired, for when there is no New Zealand-made article in stock some part of the British Empire is generally able lo supply the deficiency—“ New Zealand Herald.”

A stiff duty on flour may lie desirable in the interests of the secondary industries; but when a country places an absolute embargo on the importation of a necessary commodity, it confesses itself to he at the mercy of interests which are exploiting it without regard for the welfare of the community. -Auckland “Sun.”

Tho North Island resolutely opposes an ombarko on Hour, maintaining its right to import foodstuffs from outside if it suits and pays better than to draw them from tlie South Island. On the whole, the situation in which the Government finds itself in respect of both bread and butter is not an enviable one, but in mam- respects the Government has itself to thank fruits difficulties and waning mane.Dunedin “Star.’’

Tit© dairying industry of New Zealand has had a not inglorious past, it is for tlie dairy farmers to decide upon its more immediate future. The moral to lie reduced from the whole controversy is that it is a very dangerous thing to interfere compulsorily with tlie ordinary trend of trade, by endeavouring to fix an arbitrary scale of prices. He who endeavours in this way to get rich, quickly may surely fear a fall, when the picking up process, if tary, is decidedly painful.—“Otago Daily Times.”