NEW ZEALAND'S EXAMPLE.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 July 1918, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND'S EXAMPLE.

HIGH WAHNI^G. I "* .-;o«7h * * rJ ° 7 ’ siny^°‘ July ' fc* d : r .- r -.-jr,q j{„ nnhStfnbl -lo ' 0,.;i/ vnmr (Sir Thomas, Mackenzie principal',speaker .at, rally in $e .Town Hall, 'Heeds. "He; recalled the' New .Zealand, ,of ;tHirty' years age?. aV HrM since Adam Smith. She had, given the,Motherland preference.. After the. war she was going to put a prohibitive tariff of 50 per cent against Germany, and it would be 500. per cent, if neces-. sary.. The aim was to keep , out the Germans because they were, dishonest, dishonourable, and brutal. Britain must also do something to keep out. unfair .competition. ‘Are ■, you going,” asked Sir , “to (trade with enemies after the war on the same terms as vyith the, Allies ? , £ If so, the enemy will use every shilling profit to train fresh ..armies., to enslave the, world.” We should secure the whole of the Australian and New Zealand wool for ourselves and the ~allies, to prevent Germany ever getting the Tmer wools, thus .cutting her,out of that section of., trade altogether. The total output of American merinos was only 73,0.00,66.0 lbs. Germany alone used 238,000,000 lbs. New Zealand had sent 110,000 soldiers nut of a million inhabitants, but he confessed the strain on man-, power resources was now beginning to. tell. New. Zealand, however, could supply a superabundance of foodstuffs and raw material, while America—thank God for America —-had men in plenty, willing to go. It was sound policy to accept men from America, and foodstuffs from New Zealand. Samoa and. New Guinea must never be returned tp Germany. , s7ith the Pan : £.ma Canal opened, Samoa, was the impossible to allow Germany to set up -aircraft, stations and submarine bases did. not. want.the island, ib.o9au.se of the land, but we would not have brutal and dishonourable neighbours. , .