RECIPROCITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 July 1913, Page 4

RECIPROCITY.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph has an interesting note on the proposed reciprocity between Australia and New Zealand, Evidently, says the Sydney journal, the proposed reciprocal arrangements between New Zealand and the Commonwealth are not universally appreciated in the Dominion, if the tenor of a large, displayed advertisement in one of the leading New Zealand dailies may be taken as a criterion. That advertisement stated a good deal of uneasiness existed in busi" ness and farming circles as to the nature of the reciprocity agreement with the Commonwealth. It was rumoured that grain, flour, and produce would appear on the free list. "If it is true," ran the advertisement, "it will be farewell to the small Dominion as a producer, as it will be merely a dumping-ground for the surplusages of the mighty Commonwealth." And more in that strain. One might ask what about New Zealand dumping more oats, potatoes, cheese, hops, and hams into the Commonwealth under a freedom of tariff than she does at the present time. The Dominion producer has little to fear in future of loss of trade, but considerably more to gain.