CANADA'S EFFORT Mr. Ben Sutherland

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1941, Page 8

CANADA'S EFFORT

Mr. Ben Sutherland

"GOOD TALKERS IN U.S.A."

Mr. Ben Sutherland, of Wellington, who was president of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, when selected to represent the employers at the 1.L.0. conference, has returned to the Dominion. He said to-day that a feature of the gathering was the agreement between delegates of countries that had previously "never got together." They not only came to a

decision to work in unison to win the war, he said, but to stick together afterwards. "Our work was really hard," he said. "Committees met at 8 a.m. daily and sat until the conference opened at 11 o'clock. I was glad when it was all over."

Referring to his visit to Canada Mr. Sutherland said that with the exception of aeroplanes, Canada was turning out more munitions than the United States. "They are good talkers in the States." he said. "In Canada they don't talk much. They work. America will not Uu i. out her maximum until she enters the war." Mr. Sutherland said that the feeling in the United States was tense on the Japanese question. "Ninety per cent of those I met outside the conference expressed their anxiety to put Japan in her place," he said Mr. Sutherland leaves, for Wellington this evening.