ENEMY GOODS

Southland Times, Issue 17657, 15 February 1916, Page 2

ENEMY GOODS

PASSAGE THROUGH AMERICA. "NO GREAT QUANTITY.’’ TRADE COMMISSIONER’S VIEWS’ The statement that German goods are being sent to the United States, and that they are being transhipped to different parts ot the British dominions as Ameri-can-made goods, was referred to Mr R. W. Dalton, the new British Trade Commissioner for New Zealand, who arrived in Auckland this week.' "There is no doubt,” said Mr Dalton, "that there are individual cases of goods of German origin going to their destination through America, but owing to the blockade of the German coast the quantity must be infinitesimal. In most cases the safeguard against such importations in the dominion lies in the 'fact that most importers know quite well when goods are offered to them whether they are of German origin. If it is ascertained that such is the case they are hardly likely to assist such a class of business.

“An interesting point in this connection,” added Mr .Dalton, "is that while passing through America I was told that American manufacturers, in order to capture German trade, are labelling and packing goods which they really make themselves in exactly the same way as the German goods are labelled and packed, merely adding in small letters ‘Made in America.’ In England itself people have made mistakes. Goods which 1 have actually seen made In Britain have on several occasions been pointed but to me as having been made in Germany. In regard to the importation of goods into England, the Government has made arrangements with Holland which have checked in a very large measure the importation of enemy good*" I would not like to say that there are no German goods coming to Britain at the present time, but the quantity is extremely small.”