JAPANESE GOODS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 5

JAPANESE GOODS.

Overcoming Competition in Dominion. ADVICE TO MANUFACTURERS. The .methods by which New Zealand manufacturers could overcome almost impossible competition from a flood of Japanese goods were outlined last even, ing in an address given by Mr D. C. Davie. Production should be brought down to a consumption basis, he maintained. “ The whole country is being flooded with Japanese goods, and Auckland

is finding its way on to the Christchurch market at an alarmingly rapid rate. Manufacturers in New Zealand say that they have got to stop the influx of Japanese goods before they can set about the development of our secondary industries. They are doomed to failure if that is the policy they pursue. “Japan is not making shoes, and bicycle tyres and tubes, just for examples, and sending them to New Zealand at a loss because she likes our country. I cannot say definitely how this is being done at such a low cost, but, if the opinions stated in many English journals can be taken as a guide, it is impossible to dismiss the suggestion that Japan is shipping huge quantities of goods to New Zealand by making use of social credit.” Japan was landing in New Zealand high-class goods which could sell at prices which made competition impossible, continued Mr Davie. Vet it was a fact that Japan had to import most ' of her raw materials for treatment In New Zealand, manufacturers must I not raise prices, for an increase would • I mean decreased production and a bad J ! effect on industrial development. Just ! | as Japan had discovered her resources, j so could New Zealand. I