BRITISH INTEREST IN N.Z. FACTORIES
TRADE COMMISSIONER’S COMMENT (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 22. Mr J. Prendergast, New Zealand’s Trade Commissioner in London, arrived in New Zealand by the Rangitane today on three months’ furlough. He was accompanied by his wife and three children.
English people were interested in the increase in New Zealand’s manufacturing industry, and many of them were a little worried, but there seemed little need for it, he said. The more New Zealand’s industry expanded the greater was its demand for machinery and raw materials.
“At any rate, there is no diminution of our purchases from the United Kingdom,” said Mr Prendergast. “As we buy most of our goods from the United Kingdom the increase in manufacturing here has reacted to the benefit of England rather than otherwise.”
Mr Prendergast has been in England seven years.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27591, 23 February 1955, Page 14
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