AUSTRALIAN RESTRICTIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 221, 14 August 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN RESTRICTIONS.

\ ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS DISPLEASED. TALK OF RETALIATION. (By Telegraph-.—Special to “Standard.”) AUCKLAND, Aug. 14. “Manufacturers are extremely displeased at the Australian Federal Government’s prohibition against the importation of British goods, said Mr A. H. Court, who returned from a world tour yesterday. “The feeling created in Britain by the Australian restrictions is very pronounced. There is not a solitary order going to England from Australia at present, and the knowledge is leading business men at Home to talk of retaliating. Take the dried fruit in•dustry. _ People in England are saying: ‘Why should we buy Australian dried produce when we are forbidden to sell Australia a thing? Let us huy from California.’

“Personally, I do not think the prohibition can last. The restrictions will have to be rescinded before long, but in the meantime they are doing a lot of harm. .

In France, remarked Mr Court, clothing manufacturers, and business people who had been endeavouring to build up the trade with Australia were just as concerned as Britain. It was felt that a great deal of spadework, the work of years, had been ruined. “In contrast with the outcry against Australia, New Zealand is held in very high repute in Britain. Her reputation is A 1 at Lloyd’s, and everywhere you hear people speaking well of us.”