NEW MARKETS NEEDED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13182, 14 February 1936, Page 3

NEW MARKETS NEEDED.

NEW ZEALAND'S DAIRY PRODUCE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association 1 NVERC'ARGILL. Last Night. That there is little possibility of New Zealand expanding her trade with Great Britain is the view of Dr. J. A. Pottinger, who returned to Invercargill to-day from a 12 months' tour abroad. On the other hand, however, he considers that it is possible a vast outlet for the Dominion’s goods exists in a country such a- s Germany. Statistics showed, Dr Pottinger said, that it was inevitable that the population in Britain must decline and that important factor must have a certain effect on trade Uncertain, too, was the future of the Old Country’s export trade. That was why there seemed, in his opinion, to be little hope of expansion of New Zealand’s trade with the Homeland. On tiie contrary, a considerable body of opinion in Britain favoured, he found, ail agreement with the Dominions to take annually an increasing number of immigrants from the Old Country, not agHci.lturists. but people employed in vocondarv industries who could be so employed in the Dominion. Opinion favoured in short the redistribution of the Empire's population. The increasing economic nationalism in Europe—indeed throughout tin' world—could not be lightly regarded, and a.s a result Britain in the meantime was overgrown industrially and faced with restricted trade. Dr. Pottinger said he found a definite opinion in the country districts of Great- Britain that New Zealand was producing far too cheaply and consequently underselling the British products. New Zealand’s high exchange was anything but popular in the farming areas though in the industrial centres they were not very much concerned about it