NAZI ATTITUDE TO N.Z. TRADE TREATY

Northern Advocate, 28 December 1937, Page 8

NAZI ATTITUDE TO N.Z. TRADE TREATY

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AUCKLAND, This Day

■‘The trade agreement arranged by the Hon. W. Nash with the German Government is looked -on in commercial circles in Hamburg as a very important step in the right direction.” said Mr H. N. C. Joosten. on his return from Germany where, for 17 years, he has represented several Auckland business firms.

In the course of an interview, he said that when Mr Nash proposed the large quota of butter and fruit for export to Germany, it involved difficult negotiations with those who had direction of the agricultural policy in Ger-

many, and it was due to Mr Nash’s tenacity that quotas had been accepted. Discussing the German colonial question, Mr Joosten said the German people were quite determined to regain possession, at least of the most important lost colonies through friendly negotiations if possible. Tt is an open secret in Europe,” said Mr Joosten, “that these negotiations have -proceeded further than is apparent to the general public.”