TRADE WITH BRITAIN

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 127, 1 June 1920, Page 3

TRADE WITH BRITAIN

COMMISSIONER'S VIEWS

HOME GOVERNMENT FOSTERING EXPOKT BLSINESS.

A few words tp commercial men; were spoken by the British Trade Commissioner (Mr R. W. Dalton) at the Chamber of Commerce dinner in "Wellington. Mr Dalton said that he need not have come back to New Zealand, but chose to do because he liked New Zealand, and man> of the business i:ien here were his personal friends'. As to trade, he wont away an optimist and came back an optimist. "While in England he had seen a great deal of the reorganisation that was taking place there. The Government of England had rather changed their attitude towards business matters.. In his department, when he left England originally there were about fifty men; now there were about 600. The British Government, had determined that itd export trade Avould grow even if' other trade suffered. '

!■ 'He had' always maintained that the' [British Manufacturers;. , were enterprising. -.-■; They: ha/1 'becp.aae- mprei- sb; •md. he found-.vthem-- very; keen>to talk; about, Neiv r. ZesUandl. lie was isure the English , . majiufaoturers- 'would come back into the expbi-fc • tirade keener than ever they had been, biit a good deal of reorganisation had to be done before they were ready to start. ' Things were going on all right, and it was not till everything was completed that they could come back in full force.

So far as the British working Irian was concerned, he was hopeful; the British worker was a reasonable being whr> knew the value of coming to an understanding with his employer. ■