COMPLAINTS OF NEW ZEALAND IMPORTERS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11850, 5 June 1919, Page 5

COMPLAINTS OF NEW ZEALAND IMPORTERS

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United Press Association —By ®^ ec " trie Telegraph—Copyright. London, June 3.

The Board of Trade Journal, referring to New Zealand complaints regarding the unsatisfactory nature of British manufacturers’ replies to New Zealand agents’ inquiries sifter tne armistice as to the hope they intended to prosecute post-war trade, emphasises the fact that Britain was turned industrially upside down by the war. The Journal asks how British manufacturers could, in the circumstances, specify the conditions of post-war trade when supply and. prices of material, amount and cost of labour and shipping accommodations and freights, were all unknown and not calculable., The Journal adds: It is unjust to conclude, therefore, that British manufacturers are indifferent to the New Zealand market, and not appreciative of New Zealand conditions.