"COALS TO NEWCASTLE”
Probably no one has yet shipped the proverbial “coals to Newcastle,” but California i 3 shipping rice to Japan. And we can compete, too, even with our high wages and expensive land, and a whole ocean of freight charges. It is the difference between the gang plough and the shovel, the tractor and the wheelbarr the combined harvester and hum;, lingers and flails. Expensive labour plus machinery costs less than cheap labour without it, and freight by steamboat across the ocean is cheaper than freight by whee farrow from one village to another. —Chester Rowell, in "San Francisco Chronicle.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 364, 26 May 1928, Page 27
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102"COALS TO NEWCASTLE” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 364, 26 May 1928, Page 27
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