NOT COMPETITORS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 117, 14 November 1930, Page 7

NOT COMPETITORS

ENGLAND AND DOMINION

CO-OPERATION IN INDUSTRY

The statement that British, manufaeiurers were willing to co-operate in establishing industries in the Dominion, and that this step had already met with success, was made by Mr. L. A. Paish, British Trade Commissioner, at the Wellington. Manufacturers' Association dinner last evening. He said that some of those present , might regard him as being in the "opposition shop," but that was not so. There was talk of competition between New Zealand and Great Britain, but he believed that the great part of the factory production in New Zealand was of a kind that should be produced here. Mr. Paish said he was glad to see that of late, where imports were concerned, the proportion from Great Britain was going up, and he was sure New. Zealanders were glad to see the Old Country coming back into its^own. He hoped British manufacturers V°uld be able to continue to supply New Zealand with the. greater portion of the goods it was necessary to import. It had been something in the nature of a reproach that imports to such a tremendous value had come from America, which had done so much to stop the trade from New Zealand. That position was going to change very rapidly in the next 18 months to two years, by which time the bulk of the motor-cars imported into New Zealand would come from the Old Country, and a great deal of the assembly work would be done here. Economic conditions were generally depressing at the moment, but according to the latest information he had from Home, things were going to take a turn, and before the end of the year they would see a gradual increase in prices, which he hoped would result in, inureased prosperity; in New; Zealand..