BRITISH OR AMERICAN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16551, 15 May 1914, Page 9

BRITISH OR AMERICAN.

TRADE COMMISSIONER ARRIVES.

Mr G. T. Milnes, British Trado Commissioner, arrived in Ckristchurch last evening, and will remain here soveral days. Mr Milnes has travelled widely, and speaking last evening to a reporter he. expressed his admiration for the dominion as far as he had seen it. He arrived from Australia a few days ago, but he has seen some of the country on his way up from the south, and ho said last night that the climate was a conducive to work.

" I was pleased to hear,'' ho said, " that you had been having an Industries Week here, but why not have an All-British Week. T confess I have not been able to arrange one in Australia yet, but the idea is worth considering. It is of more interest to me, of course, and I think you New Zealanders would realise to a greater extent how much the British manufactures should be helped. In Australia the impression 1 got was that American goods were pushed to a greater extent than British. "It is the American manufacturers that the British trade fears moro than tho German in connection with theso dominions, and the opening of the Panama Canal, so far as New Zealand is concerned, will give the American manufacturer a big lift. Tho lowering of the tariff wall will admit vour meat 'and wool, but the ships which take your produce to America will not come back empty. The American exporters will see to that, and tho Canal must assist that trade greatly. This is one thing that tho British manufacturers fear."