TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21916, 27 September 1934, Page 14

TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA

OFFICIAL'S PIONEER WORK COMMISSIONER'S TRIBUTE Sir. S. W. M. Stilling, of the New South Wales Government Tourist Bureau, who returned recently from New Zealand, where he had occupied the post of official representative of the Australian National Travel Association, was disinclined on his arrival in Sydney to talk about the work which had been done by tho association in New Zealand before the recent establishment of the Trade Commission. It has been left to the newly-appointed Australian Trade Commissioner at Wellington, Mr. R. H. Nesbitt, to tell of the great esteem in which Mr. Stilling was held. Mr. Nesbitt stated in a letter to a Sydney friend that the footings of the New Zealand people were best expressed by tho inscription on a set of volumes of selected literature presented to Mr. Stilling by New Zealand friends in "appreciation of his sterling qualities in the promotion of goodwill between the Commonwealth of Australia and this Dominion." Sir. Nesbitt said he had been reminded in Wellington that the original work of Mr. Stilling as representative of-the Australian National Travel Association had been widened, and had culminated in tho establishment of the Trade Commission. Mr. Stilling had pioneered a movement which would be of inestimable benefit to both countries.