THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED :THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE". HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 1917 AWAKE! SOME WAR FRUITS.

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THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED :THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE". HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 1917 AWAKE! SOME WAR FRUITS.

IN the last thirty years before the war Germany's agricultural workers increased by very nearly 2,000,000, while we decreased by a quarter of a million. Germany increased her textile workers by 200,000,- our increased by only 55.000.- She increased her metal workers —iron, steel, and engineering—by more than 1,500,000 against our increase of 500,000. She increased her miners by 1,000,000 against our 500,000, and so on in practically every branch of industry. Germany increased her production of iron, for instance, from 3,000,000 tons a year to very nearly 20,000,000, while we increased ours only from 8,000,000 tons a year to 9,000,000 tons.

On the eve of the war the Germans were making steel at the rate of 18,000,000 tons a year against our 8,000,000 tons. In only fifteen years Germany, mainly by virtue of her subsidised and bounty-fed dumping policy, increased her exports of iron and steel products from less than 1,000,000 tons a year to more than 6,000,000 tons ; we increased ours only from 3,500,000 tons to 5,000,000 tons. ,

In spite of our superior shipping facilities and our possession of vast Dominions and Dependencies, the Germans beat us in iron, steel, and engineering exports. By almost every test that could be applied, the Germans were beating, or had already beaten us.

And it is worth, while remarking that much of Germany's progress was made at our expense and was due to folly. We not pnly g^ye the Germans, as we gave other nations, a free market for ordinary trading, but we allowed them to cut into and undermine our industries by subsidisjng dumping—rthe worst form qf commercial '•tylacklegging" the world has ever s,een. Vfe filled qur shops with German " fylackleg " goods, while qur own willing workers, lacking employment, emigrated or starved. We put German bounty-fed steel rails in our streets while our own unemployed steel workers hungered. Not satisfied 'with placing our industries at the mercy of the German syndicates, We exposed our Imperial status to German ftesj^ns. '