JAPAN’S INDUSTRIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 12

JAPAN’S INDUSTRIES

SOMETHING TO MARVEL AT AUSTR ALLAN IM PRESSED SYDNEY, (Sept. 21. Air. H. .T. Locke, a retired Western Australian- more.(mint., and a former Mayor of East Fremantle-, who returned yesterday by the Kamo Alaru front, a frip abroad, said ho was greatly impressed by the industry and enterprise of the people of Japan. Jn the big cities, manufacturing, he said, was being carried on at high pressure, and throughout the rural districts the industry and patience of the toiling masses was something to marvel at. *■

Wliat impressed Air. Locke most of all was the fact; that 2,000,000 babies are born in Japan every year. He did not; think Australia had anything to fear ;just yet from Japan’s rapid growth of population. There was plenty of room and scope for Japanese expansion on the Alan cln mail mainland, but there was no telling what might happen after some years.

Deferring to the trade difficulty with Australia, Air. Locke said the Japanese were keen on research in all industrial activities, and at present they were bending their energies towards- finding a substitute for wool. They resented Australia’s tariff embargo, as lacking reciprocity, claiming that- Japan bought three jimes as much from Australia as Australia bought from Japan.