"FOR GOOD"

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 39, 14 August 1930, Page 11

"FOR GOOD"

CHANGE IN AUSTRALIANS

MR. WILL APPLETON'S ,VIEWS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 7th August.

There is one man at least who has confidence in the future of Australia, and ho is a New Zealander —Mr. Will Appleton, managing director of the Charles Haines Advertising Agency at Wellington. He • has been in Australia for two months studying general

conditions.

"This trouble has changed Australia and Australians more than the people imagine," he said, referring to the current depression. "I see a change everywhere, and it is a change for the good. People are doing their business much more economically than when I was" last here. In the past when <i, visiting business man came to Australia he was entertained in a way that was almost embarrassing. This business entertainment was carried to lengths that were not, equalled even in London or New York. ' This time I find that things have.all changed.

: "And a greater, change even than this have I found in the relations between employers and employees. - The old antagonism has died, and they are working together.;, These two things alone are enough to indicate to me that it is safe to invest money here. Even in the hotels you notice a different atmosphere. The waitor ; and the bell boy and all of them are'anxious to do their best to get the country out of its mess.'.'' ' ,

Mr. Appleton has been, asked when he returns to address the Wellington Chamber of Commerce on the future of trade between Australia and New Zealand. Because of this he has been making a careful investigation into the trade relations between the two countries. "In the last four years," he said in Melbourne the other day, "the export trade from Australia to New Zealand has fallen by £2,000,000 or about 40 per cent.. It came about when .A-ustralia shut out some of New Zealand's products. But although Australia was the biggest- loser, New Zealand is anxious to have the barriers down again.' A conference of business men from the two countries wou'd settle the whole matter within a £*"V hours. ~ ' . '

"New Zealand thinks so much \>2 Australian trade that she has recently appointed a Trade Commissioner to Sydney. - Australia should do the same in New Zealand. We can never hope to be a manufacturing country, and we are willing to buy from Australia. At present, because of the tariff barriers between Australia and New Zealand, we are importing thousands of cases of preserved fruit from California, and a proportionate amount of dried-fruits and oranges. -It seems absurd when you consider the positions of Australia and New Zealand. There are 45,000 New Zealanders making a livelihood in Australia and\ 55*000 Australians in New Zealand. The countries should be more closely attached."