"PURCHASE BRITISH GOODS."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 20 May 1916, Page 8

"PURCHASE BRITISH GOODS."

SUGGESTED COMMISSIONEBSHIP. The member for Halt, Mr. T. M. Wilford, has given notice to more in the Home of Representatives as follows: "That, with a view to assisting the development of trade within the Empire after the waif, the National Ministry be required to appoint at once a Trade Commissioner in England who has a wide knowledge of • the requirements ;of the Dominion, and an intimate acquaintance with commerce generally, in order that strenuous efforts may be made to prevent trade, after the war, drifting back into German hands. While the High Commissioner is folly engaged with the multifarious duties pertaining to his office, and the commercial agent attached to such office is confining his efforts to produce sent from New Zealand to England, there f3 no person in England representing the Dominion who can and will devote all his attention to meeting the Dominion's requirements in respect to the purchase of British goods, the Board of Trade representative in New Zealand, through his residence here, merely bringing New Zealand buyers and British sellers together, while efforts in England to induce British sellers to meet the Dominion's require, merits will be sorely needed."