RELATIONS WITH CANADA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 12

RELATIONS WITH CANADA

THE TOURIST 1 TRAFFIC MR. H. H. STERLING'S VISIT [from ocr own correspoxdext] By Air Mail LONDON, Auk 3 While in Canada Mr. 11. H. chairman of the New Zealand Railway Board, attended the annual conference of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and at one of the sessions he addressed the delegates. He spoke of what New Zealand had done in the way of "taking a reef or two in its belt." That had not heen done, ho said, without a good deal of thought and some suffering on the part of the young nation. Speaking of tho tourist industry, Mr. Sterling said ho believed it would ultimately be New Zealand's greatest industry. " Not only is it going to bring financial profit to us," he said, " but 1 believe it will by its development have an effect on our national character as well, on the enjoyment of those who might visit us, and that it is fraught with great possibilities, particularly to us, and we hope by the same token, to our sister Dominions. " It is in both those spirits wo have set about down there to see if we cannot promote in some way a* greater measure of interchange of visits between tho various parts of the Empire and ask people from all parts of tho world to come down and see us. Our activities in that regard are not only financial, and 1 would be doing ourselves an injustice if 1 did not emphasise that, but we do wish to exchange ideas with the fullest possible measure of freedom." Mr. Sterling added:—"l feel I have got something to take hack to New Zealand. I feel that it is not only a message of the utmost goodwill of the people of Canada, but I feel 1 may take back solid knowledge and, particularly, 1 may take a knowledge that Canada stands for the traditions wo know of in the British Empire and shoulder to shoulder we will fight with the Mother Country to bring this world out of the troubles that have been besetting it in the past few years."