HIGHER TARIFF

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 6

HIGHER TARIFF

JAPANESE GOODS AUSTRALIA’S STAND APPLAUDED By Telegraph Prns>- Association AUCKLAND. August 22. Comment on Australia’s stand against the flooding of Commonwealth markets with Japanese goods was made this morning by Mr E. Abbey Jones. managing director of the “Southland News.” who, with Mrs Jones, returned by the Mariposa from an extended tour of the East. It was pleasing to read, he said, that Mr Lyons, the Commonwealth Prime Minister, had decided to stand firm as regards the higher duty on Japanese imports. It would be interesting to see how Japan could obtain wheat and wool from any other source, especially the former, because of the world’s shortage. Mr Jones connected the Australian attitude with the international situation. “It will hurt Japan more to buy wheat from Russia than Australia,” he commented. “Japan recognises the U.S.S.R. as its natural enemy and any check on its objective of obtaining complete possession of Manchukuo and other parts of China will come from Russia with the support of other interested nations.” Tourist Trade Mr Jones thought that the tourist trade might with advantage be pushed in the East. Throughout Honolulu, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Java there was a dearth of tourist literature and advertising matter. There were no folders on any of the six vessels he travelled in, while the leading hotels were also devoid of anything about New Zealand tourist resorts. In a lesser way this applied to Australian propaganda. Sydney, however, was particularly well served, and the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau in the city was a very .live organisation. “There is a great opening in the East to advertise the Dominion as a home for British civil servants in their retirement and also as a place where children might be educated,,,” Mr Jones added. “In Malaya a great number of civil servants, especially in the Survey Department,, are New Zealanders, and it is a pleasure to hear them praising their native land. They are the cause of many Britishers spending the long furlough in this country.”