GOODS FROM GERMANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 420, 10 June 1922, Page 5

GOODS FROM GERMANY.

CITY COUNCILLOR’S PROTEST. Received June 10, 11.15 a.in, SYDNEY, June 10, Sij - Charles Rosenthal has given notice of liia intention to move at the next meeting of tho City Council “that in view of the official announcement that tho Commonwealth was permitting the resumption of trade with Germany, and remembering tho disastrous effect upon tho manhood and womanhood of Australia as a direct result of Germany’s declaration of war in 1914, and realising the possible ruinous effects on industries in Australia in consequence of the competition involved by entry of German goods to the Commonwealth, the council resolves that it will not, directly or indirectly, transact business with German linns or their representatives or in any of its departments or use German goods.”— Press Association. DANGER FROM DUMPING, Received June 10, noon. BRISBANE, June 10. Mr Hughes, addressing some returned soldiers, referred to the danger from dumping German goods. He said that tho antidumping legislation and the Tariff Board were the instruments through which German competition would be rendered innocuous, and if further need arose the Government would confer greater powers on tho board to, copo with tho danger. —Press Association.