TRADE WITH GERMANY.
We have frequently pointed out that trade with Germany is essential if we wish to secure payment of our indemnity. The London Spectator recently said: ''We have had many wars in the past, but when we made peace we invariably began to traffe again with out late enemies, because is was tho only sensible thing to do." If New Zealand's policy is to be modelled upon Britain's, we must make up our mind (says the Christchurch Press) to resume commercial intercourse with Germany, possibly even on tho basis of treating her as simply a foreign nation like any other. Before tho war German trade with New Zealand was expanding. Our direct imports from Germany amounted in 1913 to £687,935. In 1914 the imports of German goods (including re-exports from Britain) were valued at £1,016,016. It will be long, however, before they attain to that figure again, even with the higher scale of values now ruling.
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Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1920, Page 4
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