TRADE OF THE EAST

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 6

TRADE OF THE EAST

BEING CAPTURED BY AMERICA

NEW ZEALAND NOT ADVEETISED.

(BY TILEORAFH.— SPtCIAI, TO THE POST.}

DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. G. A. Hawson, who has returned to Dunedin from' Japan, where lie experienced the biggest earthquake in history, speaking of the conduct of the Japanese during this trying time, said that what struck the foreigner most was the splendid, orderly behaviour of the population. There was no sign of disorderly behaviour. He was perfectly convinced that ior sangfroid and courage in disaster the Japanese would compare favourably with any other nationality in a similar disaster.

Mr. Kawson said that Japan was being Americanised. Americans were everywhere, but the Japanese seemed to prefer the Germans. America was capturing the trade of japan and the East. The few English newapaperß published lir Japan were owned and controlled by Americans, and were consequently full of American propaganda, lhe hotels were also fall of booklets and views of America and Canada. He had looked in vain for a single leaflet of .New Zealand, but had found one or'two of New South Wales. New Zealand was not known to the .Japanese. It was also not known to the thousands of tourists who went to Japan, and who, if it was advertised more, would be sure to. continue their journey and visit New Zealand. The Japanese tourist bureau was (similar to the New Zealand one, and issued booklets of all parts of the world, but there was no mention of New Zealand in any of them.