PRESS COMMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1928, Page 3

PRESS COMMENTS.

People in the Dominion will have no right or reason to complain if Britain, - in her next important forward step i i trade policy, elects to protect primarily the industries in which her people liir employment and allows to stand ovei the question of imposing such duties 1 on foodstuffs and raw materials a- 1 would enable her to grant a substantial measure of fiscal preference to U Dominions. Instituting the protection of manufacturing industries that ap pears to he necessary to her own properity, Britain would at the same time he able to offer the Dominions a bettc J and more, assured market for their pro- t iluce. Meantime, it should never In I Im-gotten that Britain i- doiu:; a g’-'a ' deal to foster Dominion trade by ex- 1 pending much money and effort on the * improvement of transport and market- " ing organisation, the advancement of ' research, and other measures, which in 1 their total effect may eventually do 1 much more than mutual tnrid adjustments to facilitate the economic co-np-cration on which the luture ol the Empire largely depends. —-“ Wairnrapa Age.”

As prices of produce cannot he manipulated according to circumstances, the remedy lies in an increase in the volume of our exports, which calls for land settlemetnt and intensive cultivation. To elicit this a new system of valuation must he put into operation which bases land values on productive capacity. The result would he a materially reduced appreciation ol what land is worth, and an end to that speculation which was the source ol all the country’s troubles. In looking for a policy which will act as a corrective the farmer should disregard the matter ol prices, which he can only regulate to the extent of selling the very best article, and must demand that farming shall he considered a business in which profits hear a relationship to economic conditions. 'here should he only one price for land, and that is what it is worth ; if ownei-s claim also a selling price, those who follow them will suiter as a consequence. —“ Southland Nous. “It. seems to me that on the field of the world’s life at the present time there are great harvests which ought now to be gathered in. Think of the field of knowledge. In one sense, no doubt, science is still in its infancy; the knowledge we have to-day is infinitesimal compared with the knowledge which will one day he available for men, but knowledge already is sufficiently great to yield a marvellous moral and spiritual harvest, if only we had enough wisdom to gather it in. Science has led us into a world of new experience awl wonders. Mo are tonight using the great scientific achievement of wireless, hut are we also reaping its moral and spiritual meaning. Wc all feel the wonder of it. and wo kno-w somohing of its social value. But there should he in it a value beyond this.” Rev. T. R. Williams, of Union Church. Brighton, in a recent broadeast sermon.