BARGAINING ON PRICES
British Attitude To N.Z. (New Zealand Prui AstoctaHon) WELLINGTON, February 16. New Zealand's case tor higher realisations for its primary produce was received sympathetically m the United Kingdom, but the British were “past masters at softsoaping Ministers from the Dominion," said a London economist Mr J. C. Horsfall, in Wellington today. The visiting Ministers were guests of the British Government which weakened their bargaining strength immediately, he said. : Some of them were overawed by Whitehall, and not able to teft their Commonwealth partners exactly what they had come to tell them.
z But with all their hard driving, British leaders were realists who were always optimistic where New Zealand's future was ■’ concerned. Swings in terms of trade naturally affected a email country, and British leaders were confident that the Dominion would quickly recover from its recent downwards trend.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28822, 17 February 1959, Page 12
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