TRADE EXCHANGE PLANS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 1 May 1934, Page 4

TRADE EXCHANGE PLANS

NO FURTHER INQUIRIES

NEW ZEALAND AND BRITAIN. PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' CHRISTGHURICH, April 30. That it was not intended at present to follow up the inquiry made in England recently whether, if New Zealand granted practically free entry of British goods into New, Zealand, England would give New Zealand produce free ontrv into Great Britain was the statement made by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) to-night. “We sent a cable to the . British Government asldng it a definite question,” said Mr Forbes, “and it made an equally definite reply. Both our cable and the reply have been published in England and New Zealand and the people of both countries are fully aware of the position.” When asked whether he did not consider that the agitation in England on the question in favour of New Zealand would produce a more favourable reply if the Dominion repeated its inquiry Mr Forbes was non-committal. “It has been suggested,’ ’he said, “'that had tlie inquiry been framed in another way it would' have met with a better reception, but I do not think that is likely. The British Government’s reply was quite definite.”