OF NEW ZEALAND INTEREST

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 3

OF NEW ZEALAND INTEREST

SECULARIST CONSISTENCY

BENEFITS OF RECIPROCITY,

(FROM OUR OWN COH«ES?ON_B-T.)

LONDON, 16th May.

Mr. E. Jowettj a prominent member of the Federal Parliament of Australia, made an interesting statement on "reciprocal trade between Australasia and this country.

Referring to a recent deputation of the Mayors of the northern cities to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject of unemployment, Mr. Jowett said it was suggested that where colonial Governments raised loans in Great Britain for the purpose of purchasing goods or materials, on entering into new contracts they should be urged to give their orders and contracts, as far as possible, in this country. As a matter of fact, Australia had already travelled more than half-way to do what the northern Mayors asked of them. "In Manchester last week," he continued, " I heard Sir James Mitchell say that he has just borrowed £2,000,000, and that he did not expect to take one penny back with him. I heard the Hon. John M'Whae say that Victoria had given orders in Manchester alone for machines to the value of £800,000. Ani in the Vickers electrical works there we say great machines labelled for shipment to Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth. Doubtless the same is taking place all over this Kingdom. Quite recently New Zealand gave an order to Vickers for a hydro-electrical plant ait a cost of £30,----764, although the American tender, was only ' £24,666. Now, this is what we in.Australia and New, Zealand have done quite unasked, and are glad to do. But trade, to be satisfactory and periAanent, must be mutually so. We cannot go on buying British goods and developing our great natural resources unless we in our turn' can: sell our goods freely and at a profitable price." ( i WHAT NEW ZEALAND IS WAITING FOR. . The Trade Supplement of The Times bases an article on the extension of trade in agricultural machinery, from the conclusion of H.M. Trade Commissioner that, under conditions at present existing, any immediate extension of this trade is impossible. New Zealand, it is remarked, has not been for many years very important as a market for this class of British goods. There is a considerable local manufacture of agricultural machinery which has attained a "high degree of efficiency.- The new tariff gives a protection:to most of the classes of machinery of types made in New Zealand, but it also provides a preference on these goods which may be of assistance to British makers of similar types as against foreign producers. This, however, is doubtful, because of special conditions affecting this trade. So far as import trade's is concerned, the business, Mr.'Dalton says, is largely in the hands of an American company, whose organisation throughout New Zealand is such that it would be very difficult for outside firms to get an appreciable hold on the market without bringing into being a somewhat similar wganisation. As for dairy appliances, the depressed conditions in the farming industry also operate to restrict the present and near future demand for dairy appliances, but in the North Island, in which the more rapid development is likely to take place in the future, conditions are exceptionally favourable for dairy farming, owing to the almost perpetual natural feed and the extraordinarily mild climate. Future years will undoubtedly see a very great development of the market for dairying appliances. It is pointed out that by far tlie largest branch of the dairy machinery business is in cream separators, and in this branch Sweden secures about 80 per cent, ot the trade. It may. be stated, however, that, apart from present conditions which entail restriction of business, the trade in separators (or even for any part of the equipment of a dairy factory except the motive power) will not go to Great Britain until the plant available there is adapted to New Zealand requirements. The new Tariffi provides for a preference to be put into force as soon as saisfactory evidence is brought forward. to show that British firms can supply these appliances of types which are wanted, and there'is also a strong desire on the part of those interested to purchase from Great Britain if this is at all possible. At present, however, importers feel that it is impossible for'them to get what they want at Home. A PROUD RECORD. The Field considers that the New Zealand Government has made a decided move in the right direction by publishing a. popular history of New Zealand's share in the Great War, ; the aim being to present to the people of that country the inspiring record of the work done by their sons and daughters overseas. Be-yond-a doubt the work will prove of much interest, to readers in every part of .the British Empire, "for the good work done by the New Zealanders will remain: in the memory as long as the war itself, and it is fitting that an offi-1 cial record of their services should be at, the disposal of the general public. I „,. .'. Gallipoli, as we know now, was one, j long, drawn-out agony, which was shared in by every battalion which landed on that inhospitable shore, and never perhaps has the story up to the present time been so well told as it is here. We follow the New Zealanders in the landing; we see them fighting against tremendous odds, with everything against them; wo note the ingenuity they display in providing such needed essentials as bombs, which at one time were ab_olute_y I lacking, and 'though when they loft many ! of the finest young men in the Dominion I romained behind, in lonely but honoured graves, they had by then found them-'1 selves, had raised the standard of their J country's name, had endeared themselves j to the whole of the British Empire, and had proved, as so many others had done, the worth of volunteers proud of their race and Empire. An additional interest ,is lent to. this excellent volume in the numerous illustrations which are so well reproduced, and give such.a capital idea of the:country of Gallipoli and the life led there_ by the troops, while the printing also is first-class. Indeed, it may be said of this history, as of the New Zealanders'themselves, it is a record to be proud of." PHILATELY IN NEW ZEALAND. Mr. R. J. G. Collins, in an article to the Philatelic Magazine, describes New Zealand as a duly constituted Dominion of the British Empire, with an area larger than Great Britain, and as the finest icountry in the world. "Philately is very live here, and we number among our. ranks as enthusiastic adherents of the hobby a Minister. of the Crown, lawyer, doctors, teachers, and other professional men." He tells of the coming changes in Dominion stamps, and urges collectors to complete their blanks of all the. current issues of New Zealand and its dependencies; he refers to the coming Philatelic Congress and Exhibition in Wellington; and to the severe loss sustained through the death of Mr. A. T. Bate. FREE LIFE UNDER OPEN SKY. The Greenock Telegraph publishes an article on "The Romance of Gum Digging," and tells of the industry on the gumland* of New Zealand, Readers are tpldj - ,_um.-dia__i_ ,i_ not without an

element of romance. It has some of the hazards of gold mining without the rewards.' It is a free life under an open blue sky with a spice of gambling thrown in.i The fossil gum is of various sorts and grades, and a digger may get all varieties in a week's work, ranging ! from the worthless kinds to the clear white gum, which is worth 4s 6d per pound. The diggers live in 'colonies' ' clustered in different parts of the gum lands, and are of diverse nationalities." AN EMINENT NEW YORK .PRINTER. Mr. Charles Francis is, in England in the course of a world tour on behalf of the Labour Department of the United States Government. The British and Colonial Printer mentions that although he has made his name in America, Mr. Francis is a Londoner born, for, the first five years of his life were spent in this city; he was then taken to Australia, moving later on to New Zealand, where he served his time. He has recollections that while working eight hours a day as an apprentice in a printing office, he used to put in anothei eight hours nightly feeding a cylinder press for a local morning paper, thus contriving to screw his wages up to the pitch of 16s a week. In 1866 he was producing the Otago Punch, a weekly illustrated newspaper. From 1868 to 1872 he was in London, but then went to New York, where he eventually took over the management of a bankrupt printing j office on behalf of a creditor firm of paper merchants. That unpromising plant, which sold at the time for 8300 dollars, was destined to become, under his management, the successful ' Charles. Francis Press, turning out annually over 500,000 dollars worth of printing. . The fascinating,, story of the Charles Francis Press—together with a , mass of interesting information and practical advice upon numerous important aspects of the: printing trade—are to be found in the recently issued volume of Printing for Profit, of which Mr. Francis is himself the author, and which is published by - the BobbsMerril! Co., of New York, jn conjunction with the Charles Francis Press. While in leading centres of the United Kingdom, Mr. Francis intends to address meetings of printers, who doubtless will be eager to avail themselves of any opportunities, provided to enable them to hear something more about printing trade developments in the United States and about American methods of tackling problems similar to; those with which [British prin^erdom is now confronted. It is recorded that the question of the relationship of employers and employed jis a subject in which Mr. Francis takes a' very special interest. He realises keenly that needless loss is inflicted upon everyone concerned because^ work people and employers tod often pull different ways instead of pulling together. He is out for co-operation between the two parties, in order- that the energies of both may, instead of being dissipated in strife, be utilised for the creation of wealth to the advantage of both. . FRIENDS' MEETING IN DUBLIN. At the recent meeting of Friends,, in Dublin, Julia Flynn, who had lately returned from New Zealand, gave some information about the superiority of the education given in., the Friends' School at Wanganui. Epistles were, read from Friends in Australia and New Zealand. Replies were directed to be sent, expressing thanks for the sympathy embodied in these messages. In an address on "Education for Freedom," Mr. Arthur Rowntree declared the real educators were the mothers of the families, and the real purpose, of education was the. understanding';and' enjOynYent of 'life. He dwelt upon the comparatively harsh methods of older days in schools, contrasting them with the new era in which influence ratherl than authority is looked to as the prime factor in education. The result of this influence :was what. he might call "exfoliation,". a real education, of which Arnold of Rugby was a pioneer, closely followed by jsuch men as John Ford and Frederick Andrews. DON'T! In the Yorkshire Telegraph and Star, Mr. W. Horton (lately back in England after two years' residence in New Zealand) claims to be in a position to give exact conditions prevalent there with the view to being helpful to those who desire information as to prospects if they | migrate. His letter bears primarily on the Government scheme for domestics, and Mr. Horton. writes: "I think, it | would be a very unwise step for anyone to go out there without a situation to go to. Quite a number otjyoung men and also girls have been "Stranded out there, and the YM.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. have had to give numbers of emigrants help. There, is no getting away from the fact that unemployment is as bad (if not worse) in proportion as it is in England, and, quite rightly, the Diggers and New Zealand girls always get the preference to emigrants; in fact, I might safely say in the North Island the 'new chums' are looked upon as usurpers." Another correspondent, who says that two of ,his daughters went to New Zealand under the domestic servants' scheme, writes from Sheffield: "They had no relations or friends there, and : have done very well up to now. The eldest one states that there is plenty of | work for domestics, but wages are Coming down owing to the number of ser- | vants going out. Conditions are much the same there, but cost of living is more: Taking everything into considera- ! tion, domestic servants are better off while they remain in regular employment, but if they were out any time they, would be worse off, not having any friends to fall back on." [ FOR AN OXFORD CHARITY. From the Hull Daily Mail; " A student of Oxford is said never to 'go down' really; always !in his heart he comes back. This appears also of her citizon sons.' Mr. S. S. Timbs, of New Zea--1 land, who a few years ago was an Oxford butcher, reading in his local paper that the Radcliffe Infirmary was in need of I funds, sent to Oxford fifteen carcases of New Zealand lamb, to be sold in the [ local market for the benefit of the hospital. The sum raised was £73 10s." The Building News refers to the activities, in reinforced concrete of Messrs. F. de J. Clere and Williams, the New Zealand architects. "- -