SHOULD FIGHT QUOTAS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 6

SHOULD FIGHT QUOTAS

ADVICE TO DOMINION BRITISH PUBLIC SUPPORT POLITICIANS CRITICISED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The.opinion that New Zealand should definitely assert itself In the matter of opposing quotas, is held by Mr 11. Ilortou, managing director of the New Zealand Herald, who, with Mrs Horton, returned yesterday by the Bahgitatto from England, after an absence

of about seven months. In an interview, Mr Horton said that with regard to quotas, the British Government, for reasons of expediency, was anxious to conciliate foreign nations, such as Russia, in trade, but his belief was that the British public were, much more sympathetic to New Zealand in her difficulties than the politicians. There was a very strong feeling that the overseas Dominions would, in the case of butter, be very wise to resist strongly any curtailment as long as Russian butter was allowed to come freely into Groat Britain. “My opinion is that New Zealand should even more definitely assert itself in opposition to quotas,” he said. If there was any straining of relationship between Great Britain and New Zealand over the quota system, he believed that the Dominion would have the strong backing of the British public, and the British politician would find that he was taking up the wrong line.

Commenting on general matters, Mr Horton said that when he arrived in England at the end of May there were certain small signs of improvement in the affairs of .Great Britain. These signs, however, did not take very definite shape until some months later. In fact, it was a coincidence that imI mediately after the failure of the (World Economic Conference business took a decided turn for the better in 'England. A great many people were secretly glad that the conference had failed.* The feeling was that it could only have made extreme sacrifices to other nations. The consequence of the failure was really helpful to the Empire. A great many business people thought that before an economic conference could be a success, the Empire had to get together and improve its own relations—a matter in which there was great room for an improvement.