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Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 1

Tile Government hopes to in ahe n comprehensive survey of transport conditions. not to give the working railways assistance to fight immediate competition. but in the endeavour to decide what the future will demand in const ruction, and even, it has been .suggested. to decide whether operation of services of certain' branch lines can continue. It is an investigation in which the whole community is concerned, ft is a serious thing for all taxpayers, including those present or represented at the deputation. The transport situation at present existing, reached largely by a process of drift, is manifestly unsatisfactory and potentially dangerous. The suggestion, therefore, that information is wanted merely to crush competition. that it will be used directly against individuals, shows ail utter failure to appreciate the fact that the Government is trying to grapple with a national problem of the first magnitude. —" New Zealand Herald.” The importation of even small quantities of foreign flour may give v.s a surplus of locally grown wheat, and this would be followed, in inevitable sequence, by low prices, diminished areas, removal of protection, floods of imported flour, and the extinction of wheat-growing and milling as New Zealand industries. As far as we can see, the only way of escaping this final consequence is to raise the quality of New Zealand wheat to something near the level of Australian and Canadian, and since the proposed Wheat Research Institute is an organisation to that end. it is to be hoped that it will soon lie in active operation.—Christchurch “ Press.”