“Against N.Z.’s Interests”

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31305, 27 February 1967, Page 14

“Against N.Z.’s Interests”

New Zealand was suffering from “quotaitis”, said Mr E. Glendinning, the leader of a British wool textile exporters’ trade mission, on his arrival from Wellington at Christchurch Airport.

He said that he had had talks in Wellington regarding possible further reductions of imports of British yarn and cloth. “We were talking with the Minister of Customs (Mr Shelton) and the Secretary of Industries and Commerce (Mr Moriarty),” he said.

very favourable, let us say.” Mr Glendinning said that his mission felt that any further reductions would be contrary to the interests of New Zealand as a whole. United Kingdom textile exporters, he said, felt at the moment that the price situation was delicately poised after the credit restrictions in England Any diminution of the quota in New Zealand was likely to have a very adverse effect on wool prices. Mr Glendinning said that

When told that there would be further reductions of New Zealand imports of United Kingdom cloth and yarns, he said: “I cannot really say very much about that. “The indications are not

United Kingdom exporters, as good customers of New Zealand woolgrowers, were anxious to see that New Zealand did not suffer too much from action “which we think might be ill-advised.” Mr Glendinning is the leader of a 10-man mission of the National Wool Textile Export Corporation, from Bradford He is the first member to arrive in the South Island. The others will arrive independently over the next few days after finishing their business in the North Island. Mr Glendinning is one of Britain’s foremost designers of women’s fashion fabrics and a cloth manufacturer of wide experience. He is chairman and manag-

ing director of the woollen cloth manufacturing company, Glendinning Brothers, Ltd., of Huddersfield, which exports to 22 countries. London was now giving a strong lead in fashions for both men and women, he said.

Railway Gardena.—For the third successive year,, the L. B. Hart Challenge Cup for the best railway station garden in the Christchurch district has been won by the Belfast railway station. A high standard had been maintained and only a few points separated the first three placings, said the judges, Messrs E. Taylor and L. A. Bennett. Riccarton was second and Papanui third.