TRADE WAR ON THE HUNS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 251, 11 July 1918, Page 5

TRADE WAR ON THE HUNS

SIK THOMAS MACKENZIE'S VIEWS. ' (Eec. July 10, 5.5 p.m.) London; July 9. Sir Thomas Mackenzie (High. Commissioner for New Zealand) was the principal speaker at a pah'iotio rally in the Leeds Town Hall. Ho recalled tho Now Zealand of thirty years ngo. "Wo have travelled far. since the days of Adam Smith (tho classic authority on monoy). Now Zealand has given tho Motherland preference, and after the war blio is going to nut on a prohibitive tariff of 50 per cent, against Germany—soo per cent, if necessary. Her aim was to keep out tho Germans because they wero dishonest, dishonourable, and brutal. Britain must nlfio do. something to keep out unfair competition. Are you going to trado with our onomies after tho war on tho same terms ae with our Allies? If so, tho enemy will use every shilling of profit to train fresh armies with which to enslnvo the world. Wo should secure the whole of tho Australian and New Zealand wool for ourselves and our Allies, and prevent Germany from over getting tho finer wools, thus cutting hor out of that section of tho trado altogether. The total output of South Amnrican merinos is only 73,000,0001b. Germany nlono used 238,000,0001b." New Zealand, he added, had eont 110,000 soldiers out of her ono million inhabitants, Hut, he confessed, tbo strain on tho man power and resources was now beginning to. toll. New. Zealand, how-

over, could supply a superabundance of foodstuffs and raw material, whilo America—"Thank God for America I"— had men in plenty, willing to go. It would be sound policy to 'accept men from America and foodstuffs from New Zealand. Samoa ■ and Now Guinea must nevor bo returned to Germany. With the Panama Canal opened, Samoa was tho Charing Cross of tlio • Pacific. It would bo impossible to allow Germany to set up aircraft stations and eubmarino bases thero. Wo did not want tho islands because of tho land, but wo would not have brutal and dishonourable noigli-bours.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable As6n.