THE QUOTA SYSTEM

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1930, Page 3

THE QUOTA SYSTEM

CONDEMNED BY LORD BEAVER,BROOK. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Oct. 14. Lord Beaverbrook, in a letter which lie has addressed to lisp ••fellow crusaders, says: “Mr Baldwin has given immistakeable signs of an attempt at putting forward a scheme which he hopes will be a tolerable imitation of what we have always asked for. J predict that the new policy which will b 3 bis answer to the'Dominion Premiers will take the form of a quota system, which will ‘ propose that bread in Britain shall be made from flour containing certain fixed proportions British, Canadian and Australian flour, and perhaps other wheat. It has seemed to '’be extraordinarily complicated. Mr Baldwin wishes to adopt it, because he is terrified at being called -a. “food taxer.’’ The difficulties of allotting to each part of the Empire its .proper, quota would be insuperable,, .in my opinion. Jealously will .inevitably arise. The wheats of Canada and Australia are of different qualities. Moreover, this scheme takefe no account of the fluctuations of the crops. Finally this scheme will involve an intolerable interference with the natural, easy course of trade. The Empire Crusaders cannot accept the quota system.