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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 16 February 1935, Page 17

The remarkable progress in Japanese industry, in methods and in quality of production, was remarked on by«Mr S. R. Norris, on his return to New Zealand from a three months' business tour of China and Japan. Japan, he said, 'was *n#nufacturing goods that were worth while buying from the point of view of quality, but what the effect on world trade was going to be was hard to say. There was no unemployment in Japan, and factories were working full time. From the Japanese point of view operawere well paid. Conditions were not so bright in the farming community. In the region to the north of Tokyo many of the farmers were faced with starvation. The Government was giving aid, and voluntary subscriptions were being collected throughout the country. At present the Government was trying to launch a scheme whereby farmers in that particular area would be moved elsewhere.