WARM TRIBUTE
NEW ZEALAND WORKERS
NO SUPERIORS ABROAD
SYDNEY, January 2s,
A tribute to Australian and New Zealand workers was paid by Sir Cecil Leys, managing director of New Zealand Newspapers, Limited, Auckland and Christchurch, who is returning from a lour abroad. He said Australia and New Zealand equalled in production and manufacturing methods the many overseas countries he had visited, and the workmen, when they became used to a jobf had no superiors in Europe, England, or America.
Sir Cecil added that Japanese standards of living were improving. Manufacturing was done so cheaply that tariffs could not bridge the difference between Japan and Western countries. Japanese manufacturers were content to turn over their output for the smallest margin.
However, as the Japanese became educated to better standards and realised the propriety and necessity of reasonable profit, and as the general living standard tended more towards western levels, much of Japan's competitive menace would disappear.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 20, 24 January 1936, Page 9
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155WARM TRIBUTE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 20, 24 January 1936, Page 9
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