PURCHASE|OF COODS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 8

PURCHASE|OF COODS

(Totlw Editor.)

Siiy-The statemenfeiby Mr. Gpates in -.Friday's'issue::;;:/that"S^ermany•i'-i-.tpok 250,000s cases of our:>pplei.last year; and not. onp; this 'yjear^ must; Igurely,; at some time or other;bringihqmestptbur politicians' the* plain' fact' that -we have to buy if wo waiit to sell. It appears to be New Zealand's policy that we have to aell; and, can raise any tariff barrier we like against those who purchase our^ prpducts., Statenients recent-, ly made' by Roosevelt ' are' definitely against this attitude^ and the U.S.AI is waiting for us .'and others to,'get down to a give-and-take policy. The reply to -our- high landing charges; may be that "we are; lower'thin1 Australia, but is not that country looking -for trouble?"". •.-v ... ■■'■'. ■' ;.'.',■ ■/. >■ :i-?:-t£vs.±i --V'

My in writing: this letter -is that'lam only one of the hundreds*©f importers who are anxious and Willing to buy'Britishand foreignrgooais/iind lanid them at', a'^price/iwhicli^people can'afford to pay^3 W*>*i'is;the;;resultl lu"Vipite^ot,i:the';:3^ Home ) statingfthiiti we "were} admitting Britislupottery Jtreij it stillxeostiTlOO to 150 per cent. to! land these dutiable g6pds with the exception of a,Jfew,lines ; ;th»;taUeJk.To::cdnf^ict?the|jKr^les appearing .in English paperrai] to "tne woiideriul Ne]feZii^ind;o*e; gai4 to the British pot^ryyiimporters all over the Dominion havehad to write their ,} suppliers' v:ttt^|inly;^'fe^liiies Are; admitted free|?anyr not; eyoo^iable

glassware, „■:; [ "Jf j'j: <:..\ V:V.^^Sw^;-??! ,' Now, what I{(S]ti»ipositi6nl*\wthP^regard to the bu^M;s|;our^o;oflio>«Bes of apples; »nd also 'every.- other rittion, France, Sweden, Denmark, even Japan! To land .'ihe?rig^d« ;^to^jp,^rc(m- :..t^bj;to three timesStteirV:brij^ilrtpricej^s^lo tax alone,;on«Britistf%ojDds^^frpn»^i to 11 per cent:, and still more on foreign goods. rTlie Gbverhmenthajs the means to barter, ,it .< is;; in ■ a position to say to any. of ■ thesenations:. buy pur products and, ; we: will ; «ur ■ tariff and high ttxeHange costs. . The'position in. the. past is- that. they, have bought our wool, and Ve> have flocked ■ out their ■ good's,1 ;= but-Vej.e'n with! England they'are now' 'saying; have* a reasonably, fair, exchange.?*—t.am, etc.,