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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19830, 3 May 1927, Page 6

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MOST BRITISH DOMINION CO-OPERATION IN TRADE That New Zealanders were more British than the people of any of the other Dominions, was the opinion of Mr D. McFarlane, of Vickers, Ltd., who was the speaker at tho Rotary Club luncheon yesterday. Mr McFarlane, who is a jovial Scot, also, said that New Zealand appealed to him a 3 being more like Scotland than any other British possession. There was a tendency among a few Now Zealanders to form a nation separate from. Great Britain, and in doing so they were trying to overthrow tho prestige of t-he greatest people tho world had ever seen. Ho paid a tribute to those New Zealanders who gave preference to British goods, but said that people here did not realise what Britain had gone through in the past few years. In one of tho Vickers works 56,000 employees in 1918 had been reduced in less’ than four months to 8000. Britain was now paving for the dole, which had been an absolute necessity at the close of the war, and she was now looking to New Zealand to buy her goods. Britain would do her part in trying to meet New Zealand in every way.