BETTER BASIS HOPED FOR
Australian And New Zealand Trade (6.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 14. Mr A. O. Heany, secretary of the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce, said to-day that his hopes for a better basis for post-war Australian and New Zealand reciprocal trade had been considerably raised by the announcement of the forthcoming meeting of Australian and New Zealand Ministers for the purpose of implementing the recent trade agreement. It was hoped that the meeting would result in some adjustment of the trade difference of £4,500,000. There was no justification for assuming that there was undue discrimination by New Zealand against Australia in the matter of tariffs. In fact, if the tariff schedule was taken as a whole, Australia received the same favourable treatment as Canada and, by reason of the trade agreement, was better off than South Africa. He hoped that in trade matters Australian Governments, both State and Commonwealth, would recognise the Dominion as a sovereign State with full rights to decide its own destiny.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22998, 15 September 1944, Page 5
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