BRITISH EMPIRE TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19203, 17 December 1925, Page 9

BRITISH EMPIRE TRADE.

Sir, —I have noticed that many people take exception to our trading with Germany and offer no comment nor objection to us buying outside the Empire. I have always deemed it just as wise to buy German made goods as those of any other foreign country as £1 spent in Germany does as much good to our British, workmen as a pound spent in, say, America, where most of our foreign trade goes. The importance is that the Britisher loses the opportunity of getting a part of that money and so lessens his ability to buy our products, or to give us a better price for them. He gets none of the money so sent, nor does it come back to us here in payment for goods we produce as it does when money is sent to Britain. Buying within the British Empire only would help all much more than we imagine and we should also dodge the articles that are being produced in the Empire with foreign capital just to avoid the duty tax. I have on occasions attended dinners where speaker after speaker denounced buying outside tho Empire and immediately go outside to drive home in their foreign motor-cars. J, H. Beale.