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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 38, 24 January 1936, Page 6

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i Australian and New Zealand ; Workmen. TRIBUTE BY SIR CECIL LEYS. n * , I Press Association— Copyright. ] Sydney, Jan. 23. A tribute to Australian and New Zealand workers was paid to-day by Sir Cecil Leys, who is returning from a tour abroad. He said Australia and New Zealand equalled in production and manufacturing methods the many overseas countries he had visited, and the work- : men when they became used to a job | had no superiors in Europe or America. ! Japanese standards of living, he added, | were improving. Manufacturing was i done so cheaply that tariffs could -not | bridge the difference between Japan and j the Weslerh countries. Japanese manufacturers were content to turn over their j l output for the smallest margin. How- { I ever, as the Japanese became educated I j to better standards and realised the pro- ' I priety and the necessity of reasonable j ; profit and as the general living standard 1 tended more towards Western levels j much of Japan’s competitive menace [ would disappear.