Aust. Manufacturers Urged To Help N.Z.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 1

Aust. Manufacturers Urged To Help N.Z.

(Special Correspondent NZP A .) SYDNEY, August 9. Australian manufacturers have been urged to help boost New Zealand exports to Australia. They have also been told they can do more to assist New Zealand towards improving its present financial position. These suggestions were made by Mr D. E. Faplin, president of the export division of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales, in the current edition of “Impetus the chamber’s official journal, which carries a 60-page section on Tasman trade.

as well as forestry and similar traditional products. He said the limited free trade agreement between the countries would be “worth no more than the paper on which it is written unless Australian and New Zealand businessmen conduct and develop their trans-Tas-man trading in the manner and spirit obviously envisaged by the architects and negotiators.” N.Z. View Given In a special article in the journal, the New Zealand Minister for Overseas Trade ; (Mr Marshall) said: “I look forward to the day when the products of the New Zealand - manufacturing industries 1 occupy as important a place on the Australian market as ' Australian manufactured goods now have and will con--1 tinue to have on our market.” His Australian counterpart t (Mr John McEwen) said: ) “The progressive development on a combined market which flows from the settingup of a free trade area will help to overcome to some r extent the smallness of the 1 separate and individual New 1 Zealand and Australian comf| munities.” The front cover of “Impe--1 tus,” which describes itself Has “Australia's magazine of

Mr Taplin said: “As with any nation, New Zealand’s standard of living is necessarily conditioned by the international balance-of-payments position and consequently, unless this balance is not only contained but if possible improved, Australian manufacturers cannot expect to make any appreciable inroads into the New Zealand market.” Mr Taplin said: “To create more favourable opportunities for our own exports we must also assist New Zealand to develop its exports to us. Whether these exports are of primary or secondary origin is not important. The essentia) point is that we must improve the flow of trade in both directions.” Supply Source Mr Taplin asked whether Australian manufacturers had fully considered New Zealand as a significant source of supply for industrial materials such as metals, metal manufactures and machinery

manufacturing,” depicts a bunch of keys, with the legend “keys to success in the) N.Z. market.” In an introduction to the section on Tasman trade, the chamber’s director, Mr L. N. Cottle, said: “It is necessary for Australians to appreciate that the balance of payments presents a continuing problem in New Zealand and we need to have a sympathetic understanding of the background when actions taken over there to protect the balance of payments affect some of us adversely. Adverse Trend “This sympathy should be the keener because the necessity for protective action stems from a factor which hurts Australia also as a big exporter of primary products, namely the adverse trend of the international terms of trade, in which the industrial giants continue to benefit at the expense of the agrarians.” The review of Tasman trade includes articles by Mr J. R. Maddren, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation. Mr R. 0. Smillie research director of the New Zealand Bankers’ Association, Mr F. K. MacFarlane, chairman and managing-director of the Union Steam Ship Company, a New Zealand journalist, Lachie McDonald, and Mr T. W. Collis, the Australian Government Senior Trade Commissioner in New Zealand.

2000 Copies

Two thousand copies of the special edition, which has just been published, will be distributed to Government officials. and commerce and industry leaders in New Zealand, through the Australian Government trade offices in Wellington. Auckland, and Christchurch.