HUN TRADE BOYCOTT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 6

HUN TRADE BOYCOTT.

DOMINION'S. PLAN. LONDON, July 18. "If you are going to be thin-skinned and allow the enemy to go on after the war on the same basis as he did beforo, then the generations to come will curse you," said' Sir Joseph Ward, the New Zealand Finance Minister, at a luncheon given by the British Empire Producers' Organisation.

Were we going to allow German ships to convey merchandise to the East and to Australia and New Zealand through the Suez Canal on the same basis as our own ships and Frendh ships? Tlie people of the Dominions would never allow the raw materials and metals which they supplied to build up Empire commerce to be sent on to Germany to make ' munitions and plunge the world! into war again m 10 or 15 years. If our rulers were going -to allow the nation to revert . to the old conditions' they deserved to be swept out of ■existence.

In the future our policy ought to be to carry our own goods m our own ships. Tinder our own flag, and if we had not enough ships, then to use some belonging to our Allies rather than use Hun ships. | .......