AMERICAN'S VIEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22853, 7 October 1937, Page 16

AMERICAN'S VIEWS

DOMINION BUSINESSMEN COUNTRY'S OPPORTUNITIES LARGER POPULATION NEEDED [BY TELEGRAPH —'PRESS ASSOCIATION J WELLINGTON. Wednesday A high compliment to the business ability and integrity of New Zealanders was paid this morning by Mr. Maxwell McMaster, of New York, president of the American Exporters and Importers' Association, and a member of the National .Foreign Trade Council of America, who spent two months in Australia, and has been in New Zealand for nearly a month. He left for the North to-day.

The visitor had nothing but praise for New Zealand and its people, his only criticism being the need for greater population. On tho political side, he said, there was little he wanted to say, but ho would say that America was very interested in the present experiment in tho management of the country's affairs, and was watching it very closely. His experience had been that in the United States tho people were far more interested in New Zealand politically and in every other way than people out here realised. " You have a marvellous country, with marvellous opportunities for a happy life," he said. " I have found your business "men to bo an extremely fine type of citizen. They are shrewd but honest, and fine traders." The visitor said he wak particularly impressed with the fine quality of young manhood in business in New Zealand, and he thought that spoke well for tho future. They were building up their businesses for the future good of New Zealand and their families. " What is wanted," ho said, "is population. You have got plenty of room for it, and a marvellous opportunity for increased population."