TRADE RELATIONS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 10

TRADE RELATIONS

No Anti-Japanesc Front NEW ZEALAND’S FRIENDLY ATTITUDE Reference to a cable message from Tokio, quoting Press reports stating that the Australian and New Zealand Governments were to confer shortly for the purpose of forming an antiJapanese front in order to forestall Japan transferring her purchases of wool to New Zealand was made by Mr. D. W. Coleman (Government, Gisborne) in an urgent question lie addressed to the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, on behalf of the Speaker, Hon. W. E. Barnard, in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Coleman asked Mr. Savage if tiie statement in question was indicative of the policy of the New Zealand Government, and, if not, would be fane steps to have the apparent misunderstanding in Japan removed. Mr. Savage said no such proposition had ever been made to the New Zealand Government. Japan and other nations could rest assured that the Dominion Government-would deal with them in a friendly and common sense way. Trade relations with other countries would be discussed on their merits.

AUSTRALIAN DENIAL

Canberra, May 14.

The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, said he knew nothing of the suggestion that Australia and New Zealand would confer with the object of preventing Japan from transferring her purchases of wool to New Zealand. Such an idea had never been considered.