BRITISH ENTERPRISE.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17133, 21 June 1927, Page 10

BRITISH ENTERPRISE.

NOT ON THE WANE. “The ultimate success of British industry and trade depends on an interimperial spirit of good-will and reciprocity.”

These words were used by Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, chairman, of the British motor manufacturers’ delegation, in an address at the Wellington Rotary Club, when replying to a welcome from the members.

The ultimate success of British industry and trade generally, said Sir Archibald, depended on the spirit of good-will and reciprocation. He declined to admit that the British race was losing those characteristics of self-reliance, associated with which were brains and skill, that had enabled the race to go out into the highways and byways of the world and win through.

The greatest competitors of the nation to-day were achieving success by the use of British brains. The Panama Canal and the work of Henry Ford in the motor industry were instanced as cases in point. lie advised his hearers not to become downhearted when they were told that British skill and enterprise were on the wane, because the contrary was the position.

Sir Archibald said he hoped t,bc disparity in trade between Britain and the Dominions would be rectified. The delegation wmuld do what it could in that respect, as inter-Empire trade was an absolute necessity. Concluding his address, Sir Archibald declared with emphasis that Britain had never unsheathed the sword for the purpose of Imperial aggression, but had reluctantly taken up the gauntlet in the interests of common humanity, when compelled, believing that justice was justice, and right was right, and that no Empire—no nation —could continue unless impelled by that spirit. If the British Empire always kept that ideal in view it wouid “ for ev&Cc