THE WORLD’S TRADE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 10 March 1924, Page 5

THE WORLD’S TRADE.

MR HUGHES’ WARNING. Per Presa Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 7. In a speech at Seattle, the Hon. W. M. Hughes (Ex-Australian Prime Minister), said: “The East with its teeming thousands of millions is becoming more and more evident as a potent factor in the world’s trade. The balance of trade grows through consumption, and consumption grows with a wider conception of life by the masses. The masses of the Orient are getting this through being inoculated with the virus of Western civilisation. The people of the United States ..ait, .„r.e full measure ji . —r geograp^A!— -.id commercial vantage ground. “You are the nearest and broadest gateway to a world which has been asleep,” Mr Hughes added, “but is now awake, a world which once dined upon a crust and now clematis a place at the World’s banquet table.”