CHANGED ATTITUDE
BRITISH PUBLIC AND N.Z.
A London correspondent of an important New Zealand business undertaking in a letter just received remarked:—
"I am sorry to say that one effect of these import restrictions has been an alteration in the attitude of the general public to the New Zealand people. When you were at Home a few years ago you must have been conscious of the favourable attitude of the public towards the New Zealand people, engendered in part by your very strong loyalty to the Home Country, and by the pleasant behaviour and atmosphere of your soldiers during the war.
"Now, the attitude towards New Zealand is changing and many people ask me why they should buy New Zealand butter when New Zealand only purchases half the value of her sales to New Zealand from this country. They also ask why they should.be urged to buy New Zealand butter simply to enable the New Zealand working man to enjoy conditions of wages and pensions which they could never hope to achieve. They also ask why New Zealand is adopting trading methods which are reminiscent of those employed by Germany and^ Italy, and which conditions have been consistently condemned by Great Britain and all the democratic countries."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 11
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207CHANGED ATTITUDE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 11
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