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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 3

The practice of giving subsidies lias t j lie carefully unaided, because it can easily have results that are detrimental' instead of beneficial. This makes it the more desirable that the amount of the subsides and the reasons for which they be given should he clearly defined i„ the midget because the underlying principle of the subsidy is that it i s a temporary measure designed to assist the beneficiary to reach a position where be can stand alone. In this wav it resembles the protective tariff, which ran be justified only so long as it enables an industry to establish itself and sc develop its strength that it can meet legitimate overseas competition. There rises at once the case for persistent investigation to ensure that the tariff or the subsidy is doing its work, because the moment it is accepted as a permanent guard, the moment it ceases to secure*" the results for which it was brought into existence, the public has the right to demand that it shall bo Abolished.—" Southland Times." If land and food are cheap, and irksome restrictions are not imposed by the responsible Departments, pig-rais-ino should be as profitable an industry in New Zealand as in Denmark, where, according to a prominent authority, the bacon business has been built up on the factory system, organised mainly by the farmers them-' ' -elves on co-operative principles, and from the birth of the pig to the sale of the bacon in England every stage has been carefully systematised. This little nation, with between three •nd I four million people, on an area about the she of Canterbury, is maintained entirely by farming, and in pig products alone sends every year to Great Britain value for some £30.000.000. Is it auv wonder the industry seems good to Sir E. Newman and other enterprising farmers? — "Southland Daily News,”