BRITISH TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1932, Page 5

BRITISH TRADE

BRIGHTER OUTLOOK

MR. ALBERT "RUSSELL'S TRIP,

After an eleven months' business trip abroad Mr. Albert Russell, director of Messrs. J. J. Niven and Co., returned bj; the Monowai yesterday from San Francisco. Mr. Russell, who is well known as a community songjeader in Wellington, received a hearty "welcomer; from a large crowd on the wharf, arid, conducting from the "ship's side, led the singing of "Pack-Up Your., Troubles.'* "The^ main object of my-visit to Great Britain was to secure as much machinery and automotive, accessories as possible "from the--Old -Country— things we had been purchasing from America," he informed a "Post" .re*' porter. "My trip was entirely success-, ful. Inv future T3ur -purchases':'.-from Great Britain. toU 'represeift about 95 per cent.- of our- total purchases."Mr. Russell said that; the^baiance. of the goods wfluldTJe purchased front tfia TLS.A. and" Canada, but 'they, would :J>e goods which the- firm found-it impossible to purchase.;from Britain. :; IBs trip was the outcome of a policy-put into operation" two- years^.acgo, ■ anjl' jt meant that purchases from." Britain" had -been increased from 65 per cent, to 95 per cent.' The stuff compared very favourably with the.American production, and undoubtedly ./would Jj9 satisfactory for. the ■ firm!sl .require- ; tnents. : , • :;: ;. -.■ ;^;...; . .r> " ! - >-"I found -the British-'m'amufacture^ absolutely 'on his toes*:to_-sefiure;£ovei> seas trade,"- said* Mr. Eussell.-^Hct-sdd." ed that he noted an improvement in the outlook of the ■manufacturers -in-this icspeet. Manufacturers "were;; -.Joakin^ to the Dominions■ for. an increase! in their overseas trade. '.'. The ; ' British delegation .went .to; Ottawa; .with', thai idea of cemfcntmg the .ties' of Empire and promoting inter-Empire; ixa<le,;Bnc{ manufacturers were autic^ating.iesuita from the Conference..- --;- ■■■-j.■..-:'t''

ENGLAND'S ACHIEVEMENTS. '

During his seven months' itayiS England, Mr. Bussell said he practieaH^ occupied a "grandstand"- seat fit-tita) affairs of Great Britain, and'--thfl{ achievements of the Motherland'in that period were most remarfca_ble; rThejjwere:— ■-. - f % "(1) Great Britain won. the..worl^ ; . bankers' war^ " : ~-;^,:,' (2) She collected a record" income! tax, and it'1 was a tribute ;'-tpi;"thai Britisher to see the splendid-way- h« • paid up. . , "' V"v'r:v.;' (3) The Budget was balanced^aiH / a small surplus shown. ;• -v-^ < .(4) There was the dawn of anew era in' the passing of the Tariff Bill, ; and the general application'■ of tariffs in Great Britain for. the first; time,; while the whole world wondered what

was going to happen. -' . .'■ .-"". **' (5) The - Government - successfully! converted the two5 thousand million! ,war loan from 5 per cent, to'3s per cent., ! . ■■..:'■ '■:'':.'''.■>, (6) Mr. Ramsay MacDonaldte-woric and diplomacy made Lausanne ai outstanding feature of history; ; (7) And by no means the;:iastj tha Ottawa Conference had been ;a! sue*

'■ "The greatest .thrill,l experienced during my journey, apart from com-* mercial flying to and from various places, was at the cup-tie ' final. at Wembley,' when f heard ~92,000 people greet Their Maaesties the King and Queen," .he said.".The enthusiasm and. spontaneity were something to ba remembered right through life; the mass singing of 'God Save the King '~ prac-. tically drowned the music of the four bands."

••; '_-:.- AU QUIET pr,PEANCE. ••■i^an, ee > the home of the tpurist, waa very quiet, he said, and,the well-know* haunts were in a depressed state.. Tour-, ists from America and Canada "wer* making Great Britain their startin* place and were getting to know to* beauties of the fountry. Mr s Kussell added ihat although h« had been very busy while- away i* spare moments he had taken the opportunity to plant "joy-germ" seeds i* various countries, and tell people about Wellington's community singing.'.