CORDIAL GOODWILL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22861, 16 October 1937, Page 17

CORDIAL GOODWILL

AMERICA AND DOMINION VISITOR'S TESTIMONY CLOSER FUTURE TIES After a stay of over a month in NewZealand, Mr. Maxwell McMaster, of New York, president of the American Exporters and* Importers' Association, and a member of the National Foreign Trade Council, will leave with a most cordial feeling jfor the country and its people. In an interview yesterday ho stated his conviction that in the next few years personal ties between the United States and New Zealand would become closer and stronger, particularly as the number of American visitors to the Dominion increased. Mr. McMaster is president of R. W. Cameron and Company, an old-established New York foreign trade house, and his connection with New Zealand and Australia extends back for many years. "New Zealanrlers and Australians are sure of a warm welcome in America," he said. "My experience here confirms the feeling that a strong bond exists. Perhaps you can put it down to common Anglo-Saxon descent and common ideals." In the course of his tour noticed that many factories in New Zealand and Australia were organised on American lines. "I have been very much impressed with your industries," Mr. McMaster continued. "They are being developed on sound lines, with good modern plant and an eye to the future, and difficulties are being met very well. It seems to me that your manufacturers are not merely out after the dollar; they feel that they have a duty to their country, and are contributing to its progress. "People here have, been telling me constantly that they wish America would buy more New Zealand butter, just as the Australians want us to buy more of their wool. My reply is, 'lf you can show the American farmer how to run his cows on open pasture all the year round, there will be no difficulty about it.' The position is that dairy production costs in America are much higher than here, and it is. necessary to add transportation charges over the long distance between the Middle West and the big consuming areas in the East. As you know, the farmers have been having a hard time lately, and the industry has to bo conserved. All the same, it may be that some way coukl be found for importing more New Zealand butter without hurting home production, if it were done carefully." Mr. and Mrs. McMaster will leave by the Monterey on Monday for San Francisco.