MINISTERS' TRIPS ABROAD
NO CONDEMNATION BY MR FORBES "OUTLOOK AMD VISION WIDENED" tFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter] WELLINGTON. September 17. The opinion that it was a good investment for public men to go abroad and meet people from other countries was voiced by the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes (National. Hurunui). when referring to recent overseas visits of Ministers of the Crown, during the Ad-dress-in-Reply debate, in the House of Representatives to-day. He said there was no doubt that one's outlook and vision were widened by contact with statesmen from other pans of the Empire. Mr Forbes said he did not join in any condemnation of Ministers going overseas. Whether they had been successful in all they set out to do was another matter. He knew the Minister for Marketing (the Hon. W. Nash) had set out to get special trade agreements with the United Kingdom. Members of the previous Government knew from their own experience that that was not possible because the statesmen of Great Britain always insisted on equality of treatment for all parts of the Empire. He thought the Minister had returned to the Dominion a good deal wiser in that respect and now realised that it was not possible for New Zealand to get better treatment than other Dominions.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 18 September 1937, Page 16
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