INTERNATIONAL TRADING.
"Although England owns nearly half the cotton macuinery of the world she only consumes, on account of her finer productions, about one-fifth of the world's cotton crop. It. is thus only by co-operating with the other nations of th© world engaged iii the growing and manufacturing of cotton that the problems confronting the industry can be satisfactorily dealt with," says Sir Charles Macara to an interviewer, "The International Cotton Federation has demonstrated m a remarkable manner the interdependence of the nations of the world, and it has been the means of extending the good feeling which ought to prevail among the peoples of all naitiona. .
"I cannot help thinking that the more statesmen of, the various countries cooperate with' the practical men responsible for the carrying on of the great industries, the sooner will the rivalries and jealousies between nations, disappear, for we cannot lose sight of the fact that the nations of the world cannot prosper except through international trading. It is well known, of course, that the International Cotton Federatipn is indebted for a large measure of its success to the encouragement • given to its aims 'by heads of States and prominent statesmen:"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 3
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197INTERNATIONAL TRADING. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 3
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