OTTAWA DELEGATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1932, Page 9

OTTAWA DELEGATIONS.

ALL SELLERS-NO BUYERS. RECIPROCITY NEEDED. VIEWPOINT OF BRITAIN. That conditions in England are im-. proving is the opinion of" Mr. Ernest Lewis, of Wellington, managing director of the Rover Company of New Zealand, Ltd., who returned by the Aorangi yesterday after a business visit to Coventry. ' There was a spirit of hopefulness in Britain, he said. Many were optimistic about the Ottawa conference. His ! personal view of New Zealand's delegation was that it was a party of sellers. All the other delegations were the eame. Nobody seemed to have realised that it took a buyer and a seller to make a deal. He had not seen the name of a buyer connected with the Dominion's representation.

Referring to manufactures, Mr. Lewis said a certain amount of local labour couM be usefully employed on partly finished materials from overseas, but if the Dominions endeavoured to set themeelves up as manufacturing countries they were bound to mail. They could only be email manufacturers and would not be able to succeed economically against the great manufacturing nations. They could, however, be great producers of raw materials at reasonable but profitable prices. If the Old Country did not sell manufactured goods to the Dominions how could she buy raw materials from them ?