JAPANESE GOODS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23005, 7 October 1936, Page 5

JAPANESE GOODS

COMPETITION WITH EMPIRE PRODUCTS THE NEED FOR RESTRICTION (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 6. "Japanese competition came under discussion at the Empire Congress of Chambers of Commerce to-day when Mr C. Granville Gibson, member for Leeds in the House of Commons, moved a remit viewing with grave concern the increasing importation into the Empire of low-priced goods from countries with low standards of living, and urging his Majesty's Governments to lay before the next Imperial Conference the seriousness of such competition. Mr Gibson spoke of what he had seen quite recently personally in Japan. There were factories there, he said, as efficiently staffed as any in Britain, taught by people from Britain and Europe, and built by loan, in some cases by the Government itself, tax free. Afterwards, they were handed over to private enterprise to compete unrestrictedly with. British countries, though manned at wages and under conditions that would never be tolerated in British countries. He commended what had already been done in Australia in the way of duty restrictions. Restrictions had also been imposed to some extent in Britain and these restrictions were a very real help to British industry. • ■ Mr D, G; M'Gbwan' (Wellington) seconded the motion. He said he believed the greatest competition in New Zealand came from Japan. ' The debate Was adjourned till the morning. . • >■•:''..