TRADE WITHIN EMPIRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20759, 30 December 1930, Page 6

TRADE WITHIN EMPIRE.

NEW OUTLOOK IN BRITAIN. NEED TO MEET THE MARKET. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] , WELLINGTON, Monday. " You cannot visit England without noticing that the people generally appear to be more conscious of the Empire beyond the seas, and what it means nationally, than ever they were," said Mr. C. W. Salmon, of Messrs. Cory-Wright and Salmon, who has just returned from America. "In England they have been educated up to this by efforts of the British Empire Marketing Board, whose pictorial posters flash at one from every vantage point, by Lord Beaverbrook's Empire preference campaign, and by the depression. , " The English housewife is at last beginning to ask for Empire products, and will not be put off with similar goods from Finland or Russia. This, of course, is of immense value to New Zealand, and it is up to us to co-operate by insisting on buying imported goods only from the United Kingdom, and by meeting the market.

" The people have less spending power than they have been accustomed to since before the war and New Zealand must get her exports down to pre-war prices. If we cannot do that by pursuing existing methods, we must simply alter our production methods until wo can meet the market. There is the lesson of Australia, which, with its high wages and heavy production costs, finds that it cannot sell its goods at a profit as the market is to-day."