RECIPROCAL TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1922, Page 7

RECIPROCAL TRADE

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Eeciprocal trade arrangements between Australia and New Zealand wire discussed at the monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Wellington Industrial Association last- night. Mr. 'C. J. Ward, president, was in the chair, and mentioned that at the coming conference of the Industrial Corporation there was a remit from Auckland bearing on the question of reciprocity with Australia. The Minister of Customs and the Controller of Customs would probably visit Australia after the close of the session to go into the matter of a reciprocal tariff. Ho doubted whether they would get the best results, though both were able men—the Controller one of the~ best men in Customs .work in the Empire—against the astute brains of the best business men in Australia, who had been studying the question for months. He was afraid the secondary industries of this country would not get their due. What had been gained by our own Tariff might be lost in this reciprocal tariff. He was influenced in that belief by the length Mr. Massey was prepared to go with Imperial preference. Australia thought she did' not deserve to be put on the third schedule. He wondered how it was that New Zealand's representative in Melbourne had' not sent, something about the reciprocal tariff, which was of such vital importance to New Zealand industries.