NOTED AMERICAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 12

NOTED AMERICAN

GOVERNMENT ADVISER INTEREST IN NEW ZEALAND Memories of a visit to New Zealand 31 years ago were recalled yesterday by Dr. Victor S. Clark, an economic adviser at the Congress Library, Washington, United States, who passed through Auckland by the Monterey on his way to Aiistralia. Dr. Clark was one of the technical advisers to the American delegation at the Economic Conference in • London last year. Dr. Clark's last visit to New Zealand was in an official capacity. " Ifc was a result of your experiments with compulsory arbitration," he said. " We had labour troubles in the United States at the time and we had heard of New Zealand as 'the place where strikes are unknown.' I was sent out officially to investigate your industrial legislation and had the pleasure of meeting tfca J?te Mr. Seadon and other leading figures of the day. Ever since I have been keenly interested in New Zealand affairs and I am only sorry that engagements in China prevent me from stopping here on my present trip." Referring to the present position id the united States, Dr. Clark said many points in the Roosevelt policy were very largely experimental and ultimately would have to be scrapped. He personally thought Australia had adopted better methods in dealing with the depression. On the question of war debts, Dr. Clark admitted that had America's trade policy in the past been more liberal the present position could never have arisen. The only logical means of payment by Great Britain and other countries was in goods, but there were so many obstacles that that wai not easy of accomplishment.