ANXIOUS FOR TRADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23758, 11 September 1940, Page 11

ANXIOUS FOR TRADE

BRITISH MANUFACTURERS APPEAL TO NEW ZEALAND The anxiety of British manufacturers of crockery and earthenware to secure additional orders from New Zealand to offset the restrictions on trade in the home market and to maintain expoit quotas is revealed in cablegrams received yesterday in Auckland by Mr. A. L- Byrne, New Zealand representative of several such factories in England. The messages stated that every available overseas order was necessarj and important to keep the factories functioning. • , Mr. Bvrne said most of the table crockery'sold in the Dominion came from Stoke-on-Trent. The New Zealand warehouses with which business was done had all used their licences and were awaiting the Government's decision in regard to the fifth period. He expressed the view that the Go\ eminent should assist British industries as far as possible by allowing reasonable imports, especially from manufacturers who had been restricted in trade 011 local markets at Home. Only oO per cent of the 1938 imports of table crockery had been allowed under the imports licensing scheme. The importation of ornamental crockery was not permitted. Mr. Byrne said he had heard of instances where crockery was required but was unobtainable. Recent correspondence received from British firms stated that the British Government was urging them to secure all the overseas trade possible.