IMPORTS FROM AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 10

IMPORTS FROM AMERICA

Sir, —Every day or so upon picking up your valuable paper, 1 read someone complaining about the importation of American cars and oilier products from that country. Surely the people in New Zealand must realise how impossible it is tor this- country to live without imports, which same applies to England. This everlasting talking about cars of American manufacture, mostly by people who cannot afford a car of any kind, is pitiful. Since when did British manufacturers commence to sell their products on a charity basis? With regard to cars I can speak with knowledge, having served my time to internal combustion engineering with one of the largest motor producers in Great Britain, and believe me when we can make a car as good as the average American car at the same price, we won't have to beg people to buy. England does not tout other countries to buy her steam engines, or ships, because in that line of endeavour she is far ahead of competitors, and in nearly every other line of engineering she leads, but when you get your correspondent, “100 Per Cent. British," upholding German goods in preference to American, well it’s time .something was said. We lead in most lines, as I have said above. Are we losing our sporting qualities and forgetting how to say. “Well done” to the other fellow? We are always saying what does America take of us. She takes just what we offer, tho same as we take what she offers. If your correspondent will look at British exports to U.S.A, for last year no doubt he will be vastly surprised.—l am, etc.. A. BURT. Palmerston North, February 28.