ENGLAND'S INCREASED CONFIDENCE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21377, 21 January 1935, Page 16

ENGLAND'S INCREASED CONFIDENCE

♦ IMPROVED TONE IN BUSINESS An upward trend in business and a definite improvement |n the textile trade can be perceived in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand, according to Mr T. R. Brodie, representative o' tames Finlay and Company, Glasgow, a firm which was established in 1750 in an interview yesterday. Mr Brodie, who has lived for eight years in India and 10 in South Africa, emphasised the importance in this of increased confidence, a change which wai very marked. This changed outlook Mr Brodie attributed to the dogged and sensible manner in which the English people had attacked the problems confronting them. Without claiming to a wide knowledge of the subject, Mr Brodie gave as his opinion that England led the world in social legislation. Mr Brodie was not in a position to discuss the trade problems affecting New Zealand, but he stated, as one whose work concerned trade with the Dominions, that the Dominions could not provide sufficient markets for England's manufactured goods. He paid a tribute to the publicity work carried out in the Home. land by the New Zealand Government Publicity Department, remarking that to most there the word butter meant "New Zealand butter." New Zealand was regarded very favourably'by England, and he himself had been impressed by the country and its people.