Trade Control From Different Points Of View
f Per Press Association. Copyright .] WELLINGTON, This Day. The declaration of Mr Moir Mackenzie, a director of the Federation of British Industries, in a cable message from London, that “if New Zealand carries out her import restrictions on January 1, we will go baldheaded for denouncement of the OtI tawa Agreement, and’l think we will make it very difficult for the GovernI ment to refuse,” was the subject of comment in Wellington on Saturday. The Dominion secretary of the New [ Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr A. P. O’Shea, said there could be no question of New Zealand’s not having lived up to the spirit and the letter of the Ottawa Agreement. Last year the Dominion had .actually imported more from the United Kingdom than its income justified, he said. Logical Conclusion. The president of the United Kingdom Manufacturers’ and New Zealand Representatives’ Association, Mr D. Hogg, expressed the opinion that the British industrialists had come to a perfectly logical conclusion. New Zealand was not self-support-ing. Its existence depended on the British Navy, British markets, British finance, and British goodwill. Therefore, any, development of trade relations should be based on close co-operation with Britain. The president of the New Zealand Importers’ Federation, Mr G. W. Guthrie, said the present regulations bristled with troubles, both known and unknown, and he considered the Government would be well advised to reconsider the whole matter. A statement issued by the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation says that the United Kingdom has always acknowledged that New Zealand, from the earliest days, has acted in the spirit of the Ottawa Agreement long before the Ottawa Conference was thought of. Since the Ottawa Conference, New Zealand has carried out the agreement in the spirit as well as in the letter, and the Government’s recent policy statements declare as close an .adherence in the future.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1938, Page 7
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