IMPORTS PROM' GERMANY.
ALARM IN CANTERBURY.
LOCAL INDUSTRY JEOPARDISED.
[by telegbaph.—own CORRESPONDENT.] CHEISTCHURCH. Tuesday. " Unless the Government and the Customs Department are watchful, I can only say K v ew Zealand industry will bo staggered, and wo will find ourselves faced with an aggravated problem of unemployment" said Mr. W. «L Jenkin, president of the Canterbury Industrial Associatio.n, when discussing the Government s decison to lift the embargo on the importation of German and Austrian goods as from September 1, 1923. Mr. Jenkin added that German manufacturers were doing everything in their power to establish former trading relations. Every day communications from Germany were being received, but the writers -.'ere not getting much encouragement. H ; R - .Best, secretary of the Boot Manufacturers' Association, said one of the difficulties was that goods imported Irom England were being made nit 'of German materials. " Every effort t « "reestablish trade was ITeing made by Germans, and already two New .Zealand arms were working agencies on behalf of German manufacturers, but were not netting many orders, ; ■:
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18496, 5 September 1923, Page 10
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