NEW ZEALAND'S PART

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13817, 11 July 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND'S PART

STRAIN ON MAN-POWER EZING FELT. MKN OH R)()IISTCFFS.' II KK AFTFK-WAK POLICY. I'h'KPKRKNCK FOP Till-! ALU lis. NO TRADH WITH THK FNKMY. SAFKTV OF TIIF PACIFIC (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assil.) Received .Inlv 10, 5.40 p.m. LONDON, July 9. sir Thomas Mackenzie wa< Hie printown hall at Leeds, lie recalled NewZealand of HO years ago and found she had travelled 'far since Adam Smith. She had given the Motherland preferonce, and after the war she was going to put on a prohibitive tariff 50 per cent, against Germany, and it would be son if necessary. Her aim was to keep out Germans, because they were dishonest, dishonourable and brutal. Britain must also do something to keep out unfair competition. "Are you going, " asked Sir Thomas, "to trade with our enemies after the war on the same terms as with the Allies' If so the enemy will use every shilling of profit to train fresh armies to enslave the world." We should secure the whole of the Australian and New Zealand wool for ourselves and our Allies to prevent Germany ever getting liner wools, and thus cutting her out of that section of trade altogether. The total output, of South American Merinos was only 7:',0()0,0(l01b. and Germany alone useil 2:58,000,0001b. New Zealand had seat 110,000 soldiers out of 1,000,000 inhabitants, but it must be confessed that the strain on the man-power resources was now beginning to tell. New- Zealad, however, could supply a superabundance of foodstuffs and raw material, while America—thank God for America—had men in plenty and willing, lie urged that it would be a sound policy to accept men from America and foodstuffs from New Zealand. Samoa and New Guinea must never be returned to Germany. With the Panama Canal opened, Samoa was the Charing Cress of the Pacific. It must be made impossible for Germany to set up air craft stations and submarine basis there. We did not want the islands because of land, but we would not have brutal and dishonouraide neighbours.