MIDLAND MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 9

MIDLAND MARKETS

NEW ZEALAND AT SHEFFIELD

CLOSER COMMERCIAL TIES

A "buy New Zealand" week was recently held at Sheffield, the great English manufacturing centre with a population of over half a million of its own. Mr. R. S. Forsyth, who, besides being London representative of the Meat Board, is a member of the Empire Marketing Board, received tho Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Sheffield at the' Zealand shop.. There were displayed New Zealand meat, honey, fruit and dairy produce., Mr. Forsyth showed how New Zealandwas a great supporter of British manufactured good's, and I until two years ago when the economic crisis struck the world, she was easily I the largest buyer of such goods, per head of her population, in the world. l-bven last year she' bought nearly £8 , worth per head.. For many years she lhad .without being asked, given a vary substantial preference to imports df all British manufactured goods. That preference, over the foreigner, ranged from lo to 30 per cent., and expended to over 80 per cent.-of the total imports Over 50 per cent, of her imports were free of duty and he ivas glad to say that oi J 2"??* bulk of 2°ods that came from bheffield entered New Zealand duty free, with a penalty against the foreigner. In her public contracts for machinery, she had definitely paid more money-in order to iDuy British, when slio could havo bought American and Continental machinery "cheaper. He urged that peoplo should always trade with those who traded with them, and that from that pomt1 of view New Zealand's claim .was supreme. He understood that Denmark, which was one of her greatest competitors, had put almost an embargo on Sheffield goods. There was no • such "embargo in New Zealand.

Mr. H. T. B. Drew, publicity officer lof the New Zealand Hign Commissioner's staff, contributed illustrated articles on New Zealand to Sheffield papers, and lectured on the country, its people, and its great resources, seasoning his remarks -with splendid pictorial examples of the Tinique scenery bf New Zealand and its sporting potentialities.