TRADE WITH BRITAIN.

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 10 December 1934, Page 8

TRADE WITH BRITAIN.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Under the heading “Dominions First” in to-day’s issue you publish a portion of a speech by 3lr Ransom, Minister of Lands, and 3lr 3lalcolm MacDonald’s reply thereto. 3lr Ransom’s concluding remark was in reference to the “urgency of our maintaining unrestricted markets for our wares.” 3lr MacDonald’s reply was typical of the careful way in which British statesmen consider their words before speaking and .might well be a lesson to those New Zealand statesmen who were present. It would be interesting to know what 3lr 3lacDonald would have said and what he was thinking. He may have been thinking of the £17,700,000 adverso trade balance which Britain had with New Zealand during the first six months of the present year, 1934. He may even have heard of a shipment of American box-making machinery having been purchased by a local Box Company —American machinery for making boxes in which to send dairy produce to Britain. Too many people think of Britain only as a, place in which to sell and forgot her when they wish to buy. I am sure we can rely on Britain buying as much from us as we buy from her at all times, but we have no right to expect the present one-way trade to lie allowed to continue.—l am, etc.. J. E. HORSFIELD. Hawera, December 7, 1934.