TRADE WITH BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 8

TRADE WITH BRITAIN

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Again Mr. Sutton^ on behalf of the TJ.K. Manufacturers' Agents' Association, obtains generous publicity in "The Post" for a letter written to him by some unnamed English manufacturer. This anonymous gentleman is vexed ■with New Zealand for her inability to continue purchasing English goods in the same quantity as we purchased a few years ago. Is there not a .certain amount of humbug' about all this? One would like to hear Bernard Shaw's caustic tongue on the subject of ~an Englishman who pays us only 8d a pound for butter, and then expects us to continue buying goods from him at the same rate as before, when our butter was realising twice the price.' ' •' If England will. pay us) a reasonable price for our butter, then we shall be able to buy more English goods. Even high exchange, whether we agree with it or not, is simply ■-a. consequence of the fact that England ia) paying us less than cost of production for our produce. I suggest that7Mr.: Sutton.might answer his English correspondent along these lines. If England were still paying the same fair and reasonable, price that she paid a few years ago for our produce, there would have been no shrinkage of imports from England—and no high exchange.— lain,, etc., ' ■. A.E.M.