THREAT BY JAPAN.
GREAT COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. Sir George Elliot speaking at a company meeting to-day about Japan, which lie recently visited, said Japanese commercial activities wore flic greatest industrial movement the world had ever seen. He said the position was serious and alarming. The Japanese were putting in factories to manufacture high-class goods formerly made only by Western nations. The prices were such that no tariff could exclude them. After giving instances of the cheapness of Japanese goods, Sir George said : “What is going to happen to Japan when something other than tariffs is put up against them heaven only knows.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 27 September 1933, Page 2
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107THREAT BY JAPAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 27 September 1933, Page 2
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