A LOP-SIDED ACCOUNT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 August 1925, Page 10

A LOP-SIDED ACCOUNT.

HOW IT MAY BE BALANCED. DOMINION’S SCENERY AS AN ASSET. Speaking to members of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, the United States Consul. Mr Walter Boyle, stressed the value of New Zealand s scenic, attractions as the best medium r or adjusting the trade balance between the two countries. On this topic lie said: . •‘Ready I cannot tell you just how manv millions of pounds sterling wt sell to New Zealand each year, nor ;u)w many millions of the same kind of K;und s you se'l to us, but there is one thine T can tell you, and that is. that tie two sides of the ledger do not bal-ance—-that we sell vou far more tnan ve buy from you. That account is lopsided,'a condition that you as business men know should be corrected. We are .onHelent that in spite of vour Empire •>i <5 fere nee our expoi t« to New Zea and will continue to increase, and that in ute of our Customs tariff that your sale to our country will improve. And •a. you gentlemen of New Zealand who iave been so kind as to buy from us so much more than we buy Ironr you may 1 ask you to set your thinking .a p's to working, and see if there is not some way in which we can balance our account.'though I must te’l you in advance that being in the way of pro .hieing immense quantities of dairy products, foodstuffs arid meats ourselves \e really cannot take much of tins from you, and must ask that you offer us something else. •‘lf you will permit a suggestion, 1 would like to point out to you that our country has an inexhaustibe i) il.v of a product that you could dis•>.;se of in immense blocks to eager .Americans. It is vour scenery, your lire mal wonderlands and your medical .nrin-rs. Really 1 can on'y see one rea-

rm whv you do not have to employ ‘inner-ds <.f traffic policemen to keep Aim- -ban tourist traffic blocking your highways, and that is because your ouiitrv is not well enough known in "no United States, because it i s only traveller 'ooking for something outside ol the beaten track of tourist travel who comes to vour country. It wo ihl unpenr that iudicious advertising , ould remedy this,condition, and bring ■o vour shore,, the doubtful advantages ~f being in He beaten track of the arcrige tourist.”