VISIT TO BERLIN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 433, 14 May 1937, Page 6

VISIT TO BERLIN

Mr NASH’S MISSION Discussions Upon Trade London, April 24. The possibility of a trade agreement between New Zealand and Germany was discussed by Mr. Walter Nash, New Zealland Minister of Finance, with representatives of German Ministries when he arrived in Berlin this week. He was met by Mi*. G. W. Clinkard, Trade Commissioner in Europe for New Zealand, and 1 by Dr. E. H. Rut-er, a member of the German Foreign Office, which later entertained the Minister and his delegation. Members of the Germlan Department of Agriculture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs were present to meet Mr. Nash. They told him that Germany was glad of an opportunity of further discussing the principles of a possible trade agreement between the two countries'. New Zea. land produced the goods needed by Germany and a reciprocal agreement would be welcomed. Co_operation Desired. Mr. Nash said that New Zealand, as with the United Kingdom, had a high regard for the German people, and hoped (that the peiace of the world would be assisted by the co-operation of Germany with other nations'. This objective could be brought closer by the extension of trade arrangements l between the various countries. Discussions were also initiated between the New Zealand delegates and the German representatives, at which the procedure followed by Germany in organising its external trade was explained' and discussed, togeth-

er with the objective of the New Zealand Government, to achieve beneficial results by reciprocal trade ar- I rangements with European and other countries Providing the United Kingdom mlarket was satisfied, it was stated that the development of New Zealand could only be continued' by making its’ surplus resources, particularly in foodstuffs, available to other countries through trade with reciprocity as its foundation. President of Reichsbank. Mr. Nash met. the general secretary of the Berlin Dairy Exhibition, with whom he discussed the forthcoming World Dairy Conference, at which I New Zealand will be represented. An hour with Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichbank and Minister of Economic Affairs, was spent, by Mr Nash. The discussion centred round aspects of German trade, commerce and finance. At the same time, Dr. IW. B. Sutch and other members of i the delegation met representatives of I the Germlan Ministry of Economic I Affairs and Board of Trade. Directors of the Reichsbank and members of the chief trading Ministers were met when Mr. Nash and his delegates were entertained by Dr. Schacht. Aspects l of the wool trade were l discussed by Mr. Nash when he met the maniaging-director of a firm which buys large quantities of New Zealand wool. Information was given

to the delegation concerning the Berlin milk marketing schemes. View of German Policy. An interesting occasion was a visit to the turbine and electric motor factory of the Allgemeine ElektricitatsGesellschaft, the oldest in Germlany and the largest in Europe. Replying to the toast of New Zealand at. a subsequent luncheon, Mr. Nash said the British people respected the German people, but they were not in agreement with many aspects of the German Government’s* policy. A study of the history of Germany from 1919 to 1933, showed, however, 'that Germany had suffered some injustices internationally. But now Germany had attained the equality for which she had been striving, and if the German Government recognised that this equality had been secured, and did not aim at more than equlality, then there were good hope's of world peace* If Germany did not recognise this, then the future outlook was dark. Germany’s foreign trade, in relation to New Zealand, was also dis_ ( cussed with the director of the German Dyestuffs Corporation.