"I have tremendous faith in your country, both its land and its people, anl I consider it most important that there should be closer economic and social contact between it and the Homeland," observed Major-General Sir John Davidson, a director of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., and of the Union Bank of Australia, in the course of a conversation with a Daily Times reporter at Dunedin. Sir John, who is on a business tour of Australia and New Zealand, added that with improved communications between the two countries there ap-. peared to be a trend towards closer business and social relationships between New Zealand and the Old Country—a trend, he thought, which should be given every encouragement, more especially as the peoples of both countries had much in common and looked at things from very much the same viewpoint.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4957, 18 February 1937, Page 8
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