NO TRADE AGREEMENT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 8

NO TRADE AGREEMENT

“Incomprehensible,” Says Mr. E. E. Hirst

AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND

"As a man in the street it seems to mo almost incomprehensible that two British countries, so closely related and next door to each other, should not be able to make a trade arrangement to their mutual advantage,” said Mr. Edward E. Hirst, chairman and managing director of the British General Electric Co., Ltd., in an interview with “The Dominion” yesterday, on his arrival by the Monowai from Sydney on a business visit to New Zealnad. Mr. Hirst has been an annual visitor to New Zealand for the past 20 years and he said that although not knowing perhaps the inner s'ecrets and the whys and wherefores of the position, he did feel sorry that a trade arrangement between Australia ami New Zealand had not been negotiated. If the countries could not make a trade arrangement, how, he asked, could they expect tc establish advantageous trading relationships with foreign countries? “I do hope and, in fact, anticipate that when the two Governments come together again ,(as I understand they are to do in the near future), what the man in the street expects, a satisfactory trade agreement, will be reached without further delay.”