TRADE v WITH BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 6

TRADE v WITH BRITAIN

(To the Editor.) ■".;■'■'. • Sir,—The appeal made by your correspondent "N.Z." for better treatment of the Old Country should find a ready response from the Government and people of New Zealand. It is difficult to understand why preference was ever given to Australian imports over those from Britain. Surely the trading position for years past has been such that preference was due to British goods above all others. Small wonder is it that Britain has recently completed trade agreements with other countries, the latest reported being one' with Iceland. Australia is one of our biggest competitors, and can never be a large purchaser of our produce, yet we have accorded her special inducements to compete in' this market against our only substantial customer. . Whatever friendly feelings' we may entertain towards other colonies, our plain duty is to support the Old Country to the fullest extent possible, after making proper provision for the protection of our own secondary industries: If we do not do that then we most assuredly will have greater unemployment and greater taxation to support the workless.—l am, etc., TAXPAYER.