INTER-EMPIRE TRADE

Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2179, 5 July 1928, Page 4

INTER-EMPIRE TRADE

BUY BRITISH PRODUCTS. The New Zealand bowlers at present touring Great Britain are stressing the advantages of inter-Empire trade. By the latest English mail advice cornels, that at a reception to the tourists at Bude (Cornwall) the bowlers seized the opportunity " in no uncertain voice."

At the dinner in the evening a trenchant appeal to England to "play with the boys who play with you "' was made by Mr Hardley. " We are proud of our country, although we have a population of only 1,400,000 souls, and although we are 1.3,000 miles from England there is no more loyal part of the British Empire than New Zealand," said Mr Hardley. "It is from England that we have obtained those qualities which have made us good sportsmen, Our country takes more of the products of Great Britain than any other country in the world. We have any amount of room in New Zealand for the best of your Cornishmen, but what we want you to do first of all is to buy our products. We are a great butterproducing country, and we produce wheat, wool, and fruit in large quantity. You should realise that blood is thicker than water, and stand by your kinsmen.

" Why on earth do you import from the United States of America, which country closes and bangs every door against us, all the time, 40,000,000 cases of their apples? We can and do produce the finest apples in the world. We can take your sons and halp< them to produce the apples, but what is the good if our own country won't buy them ? Why not remember, and 'play with the boys who play with you ? ' "