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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9999, 17 June 1918, Page 3

Speaking to a reporter in Auckland Mr G. T. Alilno, who'has been appointed senior .British, Trade Commissioner in Canada, said: ‘‘lt is only by tho manufacturer and the English exporter getting accurate knowledge of the requirements of tho Dominion markets that foreign competition can be successfully met. The problem confronting our commercial communities is tho double one of efficient production and effective distribution. Those and other cognate problems arc receiving tho close attention of tho Oversea Trade ‘Department. Its officers are hopeful that with the enormously increased capacity for production which will result from the overhauling of British muchincry consequent upon tho war, and tho corresponding reorganisation of tho national life, Britain will he able to maintain and extend her export trade in competition with tho world. “If,” he fidcled, “tho various outlying units of the Empire can bo so organised as to keep up the. steady stream of ra\v materials that our manufactories requre. I do not think wo need fear the consequences of any foreign competition. This is particularly true of some of tho tropical dependencies, ns it is of course obvious that in some of tho self-governing Dominions the war has given an immense impulse bo local manufacture, and that there is a strong desire towards a greater degree of solf-containmcnt.”

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