EXPORT TRADE POLICY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22094, 27 April 1935, Page 15

EXPORT TRADE POLICY

Sir, —One gladly endorses the very corfect conclusion reached by your leader in your Thursday's issue showing how badly Britain needs a general policy regulating her trade with the Dominions and how detrimental is her piecemeal planning. It is ruining producers, forced indefinitely to wait—and to sit—and in the end is paralysing any stimulus for work. The effort now should be to arrange a round table conference with Britain and to end uncertainty in favour of an aggressive and permanent export policy. And that policy must be directed to raise, promote and elevate the earnings derived from our exports. Passivity is the worst method that can be used at this juncture, especially passivity shrouded in perpetual mystery. The "definite steps taken to explore additional markets" have tarried, of course. Now, obviously, clear and open action, not words, is required, and new outlets in countries other than Britain must be secured at once, for our surplus. Unless, of course, we desire to stifle scientifically the whole of our primary industries. Alexander S. Tetzner.