RUSSIAN-NEW ZEALAND TRADE

Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 3

RUSSIAN-NEW ZEALAND TRADE

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Mr D. M‘Laren, Wellington, enters the lists against doing business with the Soviet Union because we do not take enough goods in return, etc., and suggests that we support our best customer, Great Britain. This is all right, too, but if Mr M'Laren will look up more of my letters he _ will find I suggested diverting our imports of petrol and oil from America (who takes little or nothing from us and raises lygh tariff walls against us into the bargain) to the Soviet Union, which was willing to take our wool, which our primary producers have still in stock for more than one season, and cannot get a profitable market for. Here was an opening to do good business with the only country in the world to-day which has an expanding market. If Mr M’Laren will go • to his city’s public library and look up the October 15 and 22 issues of the London ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ and read the leading articles contained therein, also the ‘Guardian’s’ special Russian number of October 15, I feel sure he will get ray point of view. Great Britain’s manufacturing interests are pressing their Government for greater facilities to do business with the Russian Republic, and orders which would have given work to thousands of Britain’s unemployed had to be refused because the credit facilities were not sufficiently elastic to allow contracts to bo entered into, ahd these orders went to Germany, Denmark, America, and others. Our primary producers have the goods Russia is in need of. Russia has the goods we herb are in need of. Russia is prepared to trade on even terms with us. Then why not get a move on and complete the job? Cut out the American trade and divert it to Russia. We can still have our quota no doubt for Great Britain, as a glut seems to be in evidence there.— I am, etc., P. Nett.son. December 12.