Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. Our Trade for Our Own Folk.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2

Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. Our Trade for Our Own Folk.

There is an excellent movement which has caught on in Australia that might \ery well bo extended to this side ol Tasman Son. It is a movement amongst merchants and traders and public men pledging themselves to trade only with Britishers within the Empire. German manufacturers are to be ruled out in the future, and time is taken by the forelock in this patriotic movement to guard against the German "sinooging" himself back again into Britons' good graces after the war. That the movement might prove a very effective way of keeping the Hun in his proper place for the future may be gathered from tho following list of some of the more important items imported into New Zealand,'from Germany during the year 1913, all of which might well be obtained from other sources: —

Bicycles, etc. I^'rnH Materials for motors 67,5UU China and porcelain 12,000 Clocks 6-000 Cotton piece goods .■ C.OOO Drapery- •■ 6,000 Cream of tartar ... 20.000 Drugs and dyes 10,500 Earthenware' 7,000 Fancy goods and toys 0L',500 Glass bottles, etc f>3.000 Hardware, hollo ware, etc. ... '29,000 Musical instruments GO.OOO Wire and iron hooping 8,000 Lamps, wick 11,500 Leather 7,500 Dairying, sewing, and electric maehinerv •■• 45,000 Artificial manure 46,000 Flower, grass and clover seeds 31,000 Salt". COW) Stationery ..." 1-1,000