CORRESPONDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1931, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

UNEMPLOYED

(To the Editor.)

Sit’:—Regarding above subject—what are the causes of depression—h iisc low prices for wool, butter, cheese, frozen meat, they tire the principal products of New Zealand. Well sir, if they are the present main products of this country, why not produce something else, to send to every country on the globe. Canterbury can grow good barley, why not let some company in New Zealand start a distillery and make some good whisky and fill the boats to the hatches and go to every corner of the earth. Me in New Zealand have to send to Canada

and America for motor cars and implements, and they are gotiing the money that «’e could easily keep in New Zealand! Why should we send to Europe for our whisky, why not New Zealand send whiskey to the markets of the world.—Another point is we have unlimited water power going to waste. Take the Toaroha 70 to bOO going begging; There should be a liiie of factories from Hokitika to the foot, of the ranges manufacturing duf i‘a\v materials, a fid sending our surplus goods all over the world. Why rail our hides, wool etc., to Christchurch or other centres to bo dealt with, when wo could deal with them here. Recently some company paid an enormous sum for a site to ■build a factory, where for the same amount, they could have harnessed the Toaroha Falls, bought plenty of ground, and still have had enough to build an up to date factory. Me in New Zealand must have something to sell, if one thing fails we must try something else. There is no reason why the West Coast should not be a hive of industry, and only let the manufacturers see that they can get chr,ap clean power, also reasonable price for sites for their operations, and then we shall see plenty of P'osperity all over New Zealand. Unemployment will be a think of the past. What about developing Point Elizabeth harbour and the largest liners could leave direct for any part of the world with goods etc., produced on the West Coast. America will go wet soon and if so we should have a million or two of cases of good dope to ring in on them in exchange -for their tin lizzies and gramophones etc. Mr McDonald, Prime Minister, has opened trade relations with Russia, and it looks as if New Zealand is in the soup, as they can place butter 50 per cent, cheaper on the market than w'i can and grow enouch wheat and m*-at to supply the world. They have only to go over the street for their market, where we have to carry 14,000 miles 1 Hoping I have not trespassed too much on your valuable space, I am, NO DOLE.