RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 7

RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

Trade Agreement Discussed MR NASH URGES PEACE MAINTENANCE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) LONDON, April 22. The Berlin corresnondent of the Australian Associated Press says that on the eve of his visit to Moscow the New Zealand Minister of Finance (the Hon. Walter Nash) revealed that he had spent Monday and Tuesday in discussions with the Foreign Office on a trade agreement and had also lunched with the German Minister of National Economy (Dr H. Schacht). (( Mr Nash in an interview said: “The tentative agreement reached will probably be finalized before I leave London in June. The main object is to increase two-way trade, and if the plan succeeds the trade should at least be doubled. The agreement in principle closely resembles the German-Canadian agreement, but there are stronger safeguards for New Zealand. Provision is made to prevent any appreciable trade balance arising in favour of either side.” Leading men asked Mr Nash for his views on the international situation and Mr Nash told them that if Germany showed she was disposed to use her regained freedom to collaborate in the maintenance of peace the world would be on her side, but if she was not the outlook was dark indeed. Mr Nash had a long interview with a representative of the largest German L ayer of New Zealand wool. He also interviewed the Director of the German Dyestuffs Corporation. Before their departure for Moscow (he New Zealand party entertained the representatives of German Ministries at a dinner in the Hotel Kaiserhof.