THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Im?ehi,u, Fit eh Trade. The idea of “free trade within the Empire” is, as tho Minister of Lands said, “not practical polities.” To demolish our “tariff walls” and admit all Imperial products free would mean that our secondary industries would lie exposed, on the one hand, to the competition of heavily capitalised ami highly organised British industries, and on the other to the competition of Oriental labour, with its infinitely lower rates of wages and standards of comfort. To surrender our right to defend the local producer against his external rival would be to abandon the fundamental principles of our fiscal policy and to doom our secondary industries to speedy extinction. —Auckland Star. Woods' Croat Peppermint Cure Fir, ' aid for "ough i. colds, influenza. For spring wear wo are opening new costumes, coats, jumpers, hosiery, scarves, and neckwear. Inspection invited,—Schroder and Co.—Advt,
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1928, Page 2
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146THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1928, Page 2
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