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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1927, Page 4

Fasliicnakle as it is to-day to decry the Free Trade doctrine. Canada—and for that matter Europe and the United States —is <on Iron ted with the dilemma that in a world interdependout iii (•..iiimorcp ono country cannot fqnee. itself off from all others and at the same time grow in wealth and t 'infort. If that is true of Canada, with its ten millions of people, how much truer must it he of Xew Zealand with less than a. million and a. halt? There are comnmdities which we can and do produce in competition with the world, hut their production is boincr handicapped more and more by a policy of fostering at their expense industries which cannot compete in the world's market and have too small a domestic market to enable them to produce economically. The . Arbitration Court is trying to help that policy. It may as well try to make water run uphill.—-‘‘Taranaki Herald.” iwwjaacugjariiaMßannitwamnßaM