FREE TRADE PLEA

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 10

FREE TRADE PLEA

Business Bad in Holland “Business in Holland is bad. bad!’’ said Mr. B. J. Baars, a Dutch business mau at present visiting Wellington. “We hav t > cheese to sell, and we have apples Io sell, but we cannot, because of the high tariff walls. The whole of Europe is grown poor through too high duties. That will still be so, as long as the statesmen pile up the tariff walls. Free trade we have got to have: if one people wants to buy from another people, they must be able to, or the country will continue to suffer depression. You iu New Zealand think that you are out of depression, but as long as there is depression in Europe you will be liable to slip back into that depression. That is. until free trade comes. Long years it will last, I think, before that is so.” Mr. and Mrs. Baars arrived by the Makura yesterday on a three-week visit to New Zealand, in the course of a world tour. They were accompanied by Mr. J. Van der Koppell, a Dutch civil servant from Java.

“You spell New Zealand wrong,” said Mr. Baars. “You should spell It with two e’s, New Zeeland, so. I come from a village iu Zeeland, in North Holland, after which your country is named. Tasman, who discovered New Zealand, came also from a little Zeeland village. Luljebroek. where his cottage is still preserved.” \ ■■ ~