BEST VALUE IN WORLD

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 9

BEST VALUE IN WORLD

British Goods for Dominion INDISSOLUBLE LINK “New Zealand is justified in buying from England at some sacrifice to herself. Let that be the national slogan, because New Zealand and Great Britain are indissolubly linked,” said Lord Barnby, who was the guest of honour at a luncheon given by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Lord Barnby said that industrial prosperity in Great Britain, with consequential high purchasing power, was essential for New Zealand, wherefore all possible imports should be from Great Britain. Incidentally, he could with confidence state that as production costs were definitely falling in Great Britain, while they were rising in competing countries like France, New Zealand importers could to-day buy in Great Britain with greater confidence than ever that they were getting for their money—and provided the article was suitable for the New Zealand market —the best values in the world. ~ , “I am among those who think a great change is taking place in the economic mind of England—the tide is running fast toward protection,” said Lord Barnby. “The ninety-two r r cent, vote in the Federation of British Industries ballot in favour of a fiscal change, the resolutions this year of the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and Bradford, also in favour of a change, make it plain. I shall return to England a stronger believer in the policy of increased inter-imperial trade. “British bargaining power needs mobilising, and Imperial reciprocity is an important item. How much longer can England, with tariff walls in every direction being yearly heightened against her, permit the pouring in of foreign produce, including foods of a character such as the Empire produces an ample supply of. from countries with an infinitely lower standard of living and which take much less of British manufacture in return—including, for instance, butter from Russia, where it is manufactured under conditions of labour contract devastating to all free institutions.” »