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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 162, 1 December 1919, Page 4

N.Z. L. & M. AGENCY CO. mnE CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR X STOCK ARE CASH.—Buyers requiring accommodation for the purchase of stock must make arrangements prior to purchase with the management ut Head Office, Hamilton. Cleaning Sales. Friday, Dec 19—Mr R. T. Seccombe, Pirongia Monday, December 22—Messrs E. A. May and Sons (carting plant), Cambridge yards Thursday, January 22—Mrs M. Forbes, Te Anga (in conjunction with Farmers’ Auctioneering Co.) Hamilton Spring Horse Fair. Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 2 and U 200 horses of all classes 20 unbrokemcolts and lillios SO draught mares and geldings, broken to all work 70 hacks and harness horses 7 coach horses 1 good spring dray, horse and harness 2 good polo ponies by Spalpeen and Wauchope 1 reliable upstanding buggy mare 1 good trotting mare, by Dan Patch— Romney Bell 1 good Shetland pony 4 Timor ponios, 0 and 4yr-old, broken to saddle The well-known gig horse, Reuben, been driven by a lady P. and D. Duncan s.f. Lever plough, horse, double buggy and harness. Also, on account of client who is giving up contracting—--5 good medium draughts, 4 to (iyrs, broken all work Numbers will be given at the gate on arrival. ORDER OF SALE: First day: Unbroken stock, Draughts Second day : Light horses HAMILTON STOCK SALE. Thursday, December 4. 209 head cattle Entries Solieited TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE Saturday, December 6 490 head cattle 2 medium draught horses 1 waggon, 1 ton N.Z. L. & M. AGENCY CO. HAMILTON. IIE N.Z. FARMERS’ CO-OPEItA-TIVE Will receive Pigs as under: S. SHAW, Buyer. Telephone 140, Te Aroha. YOUNGER & WILLIS PAINTERS, PAPERHANGERS, & DECORATORS. Reasonable Charges and Good Workmanship Guaranteed. Tower Road Matamata Enquiries of Mr W. A. Gordon, Matamata Timber & Hardware Co. KEEP THE Champion Standard Uufurled And Success will Continue The Fallacy of Free Trade I OFTEN notice in the press some of my people are advocating Free Trade, which would bo feasible if it were universal. You know tho trouble England got into through allowing the dumping of German surplusage on its markets and the miserable pittance its artisans were getting. America was not quite so “ philanthropic,” and has waxed fat on England’s shortsighted policy. The Americans are noted for “ points,” but invariably they are for themselves. Why do not free traders advocate the removal of the alien poll tax Y If it were done, it would permit of a much lower rate of wage being paid, and a lower cost of production ; and, besides, wo would have tho cost of maintenance of those subjects instead of tlieii surplusages in goods, with the result that we would soon bo brought down to the Asiatic level. Japan, India, and China are making rapid strides in manufacturing, and with cheap labour, augmented with modern machinery, they will ultimately be a menace to the British artisan ; but evidently this is of little moment to “some,” as they appear anxious for cheap,labour and goods without considering its disastrous elleets to the British workers. It is obvious tho products of the soil must he amply protected against foreign importations from countries where land is low in price and labor cheap, otherwise the Dominion must suffer. I quite believe if you woro now to oiler mudc-in-Gcrmnny goods at a trifle less than those of British manufacture, patriotism, in some instances, would vanish like smoke. I am, V., AUCKLAND. '