BI-LATERAL AGREEMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3760, 25 May 1936, Page 8

BI-LATERAL AGREEMENTS

MR NASH’S MISSION TO LONDON.

Hitherto Britain has insisted that she will not enter into bilateral agreements with any of the Dominions, and Mr Nash’s hardest task, perhaps, will be to persuade her to. deviate from this course. In any case, either alone or in company with the other Dominions, he must seek a larger share of the British markets for the inevitable increase in production, and the next step will be to persuade those who are directly interested in the marketing of produce to confer upon New Zealand treatment at least equal to that which has been enjoyed in the past. Here there may be some difficulty on account of the antagonism created by State interference with commerce. Overseas marketing must for a long time to come be the cornerstone of New Zealand’s economic policy, for upon its success or otherwise depend such vital questions as finance, customs, prices, and, indeed, almost everything that contributes to the life and well-being of the nation.—Poverty Bay Herald.