ALARMING POSITION
JAPANESE INDUSTRY REMARKABLE PROGRESS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Sir George Elliot,' speaking at a company meeting to-dav about Japan, ,which, he, 1 recently visited, said tho Japanese commercial activities were the greatest industrial movement the world had ever seen. He said the position was serious and alarming. The Japanese were putting in factories to manufacture high-class goods, formerly made only by western nations. The prices were such that no tariff could exclude them.
After giving instances of the cheapness of Japanese goods, Sir George said: “What is going to happen to Japan when something other than tariff's is put up against them, heaven only knows. ’ ’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18204, 27 September 1933, Page 11
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109ALARMING POSITION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18204, 27 September 1933, Page 11
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