FREE TRADE PLEA

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11932, 25 January 1936, Page 3

FREE TRADE PLEA

Rr.SINE.SS HAD IN HOLLAND

“Business in Holland is bad, bad!” said Mr B. J. Baars, a Dutch business man at present viisting Wellington. “We have cheese to sell, and we have apples to sell, but we cannot, because of the high tariff wails. The whole of Europe has grown poor through too high duties. That will still be so, so long as the statesmen pile up the tariff walls. Free trade we have got to have: if one people wants to buy from another people, they must be able to, or the country will continue to suffer depression. You in New Zealand think that you are out of depression, but as long as there is depression in Europe you will be liable to slip back into that depression. That is, until free trade comes. Long years it will last, I think, before that is so.” “You spell New Zealand wrong,” said Mr Baars. “You should spell it with two e’s, New Zeeland, so. I come from a village in Zeeland, in North Holland, after which your country is named. Tasman, who discovered New Zealand, came also from a little Zeeland village, Lutjbbroek, where his cottage is still preserved.”