APPEAL TO GLASGOW HOUSEWIVES

Hutt News, Volume 6, Issue 5, 5 July 1933, Page 2

APPEAL TO GLASGOW HOUSEWIVES

By SIR THOMAS WILFORD, K.C.M.G., K.G., High Commissioner for New Zealand.

"This week New Zealand is conduct-* ing a special campaign in Glasgow in the interests of her produce, and I want to appeal to all our friends in your great city to increase then' trade with us," states Sir Thomas Wilford, in the '.'Evening Times" of March 20th. "New Zealand is almost entirely a produce-exporting country and the foodstuffs she supplies to Great Britain are chiefly butter, cheese, lamb and mutton, honey, apples, etc. The farmers in the Dominion (of whom so many are from Scotland), are suffering very severely, like your own, from low prices, and they are bravely endeavouring by increasing their sales to make ends meet. " Glasgow housewives will greatly help us if they will substitute, when they can, New-Zealand produce for that from foreign countries. I do not ask them to buy it in preference to their own home-grown —that should come first in their consideration —but it so hap-

pens that New Zealand produce arrives in England in greatest quantities just when your own season has virtually ended. "New Zealand produce is declared by British scientists to be of the highest quality. This, in itself, is a recommendation but there is also another excellent reason why people in a manufacturing city like Glasgow should buy it, and that is that most of the money spent in its purchase remains in . the country, to pay for the great quantity of manufactured articles we New Zealanders take in return. "No other people in the world spend individually, so much money on British manufactures as New Zealanders, and if we cannot sell our produce to advantage our purchasing power naturally falls and your factories suffer. You Will 'keep the money in the family.when you buy New Zealand produce."