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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5078, 21 January 1927, Page 3

-'>A burning question in America,” .stated Mr T. O. Bishop, secretary of the-New Zealand Employers’ Federation. who returned to Wellington this week after a visit to the United : states, “is the effect on the farming industry df the high protective tariffs built up around the manufacturing in■dustries. Farmers are suffering very acutely from the effect of high wages paid ot city workers and the consequent dearth of suitable farm labour. A special commission, representative of the Senate, has been appointed to investigate farmers’ problems. To a very much smaller degree we in New Zealnda are suffering in the same way, and the findings of the American commission will, no doubt, prove to be. of interest to students off economics in the Dominion.”

It, takesi little to excite the curiosity cf many people. In a Plains workshop a rectangular tankr of unusual dimensions is being constructed and the workers are experiencing some difficulty in facetiously explaining its purpose to-the. many who inquire. Actually the tank is to be used to keep water from percolating into a hole in the ground while a concrete chamber is made 'for a petrol pump tank which is to be installed at Waitakaruru. The tank under, construction will be used as the outer form ’for the concrete. In the. con--struction of other petrol tank chambers on the Plains considerable diffi- ; cuty has been experienced on account »of the in-rush of water destroying the. .■concrete.