CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81838, 3 September 1906, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE RECIPROCAL TARIFF. To the Editor. Sin,-Af|;cr carefully looking over ho comments, from various places, on the proposed reciprocity with Australia, one would like to summarise a little. La the meantime, please acoept what appears as a summary to a mere reader and consumer. There r-e laments from various traders and producers—it is "ervng before they are hurt" llio'i.rl|. It will ho bad. so they say, for lliopinr sugar producer; bad for fie poor llour-miller ; bad for the poir I rail,grower, ele, Then, to crown nil, it will be I, ,d for the poor landlord in Aew Zealand, because "Auilrahan wheat-growing land is very cheap compared to our■-." Now, how will it be with the poor consumer? fu any or e»ery business wo hare from 50 to 11)1)0 consumers to one producer; i| follows, then, that if we arc to consider the "greatest good for the greatest number," we should ask the consumers wlnt they thi lk about the matter. A-' a' consumer, I am glad to sec that there is a prospect ol some restriction;, in our trade with Australia bo.ng re'mbved f am glad, for many reasons, ,vl llM , there is an extension of inter-colonial as well as iuter.natioaal trade. Il will be a good thing for my trade if we get cheaper bread, cheaper sugar, and cheaper fruit, etc. Will it hurt your business. Sir? But even though it shouio, J f eel sure you will nse above that thought and ask : n'in u );2 "' lfi d for the people jof Australasia," Neivj Zealand amf ilio ComiuonweaUh '■>—{] »m, etc. J ■■■■■•