AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17293, 17 October 1919, Page 7

AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA.

DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE. NEW COMMISSIONER'S VIEWS. Australian and NZ. Cable Association. ; (Reed. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 15. Mr. Mark Sheldon, the new Commonwealth Trade Commissioner to the United States, in an interview, stated that a considerable number of American financiers and businessmen had recently been in Australia, laying the foundation of extensive commercial intercourse between the two nations. He trusted that more of them would come to the Commonwealth. Australia would answer gladly any inquiries as to her resources and conditions. She was I now enjoying the greatest prosperity in the whole of her career, and she was willing to share the prosperity with the rest of the world. Her success was built on several features which American captains of industry recognised as invaluable. He hoped that the United States would become more interested in buying Roods from Australia. The office of the Trade Commissioners would be able materially to develop trade both ways. The Panama Canal, continued Mr. Sheldon, would do much to further the trade movement. The war bid brought the English-speaking peoples closer together. Australians had come to understand better the value of their Imperial obligations. They were proud of their achievements on behalf of the Empire. The ties between Australia and Britain i were never stronger than at the prei sent time.