FRIENDLY RELATIONS
N.Z.-Japan Society Should Benefit Trade (Received 15, 8.45 a.m.) TGKIO, April 14, At an Australibn-Japanese lUncheofl, Baron Sakatani, who presided, annoiinced the fbfmation. of a New ZfealafldJapafl 'Society. Mr lyemasa Tbkngawa (former Cofl-sul-General at Sydney, who in 1028 negbtiated N'ew Zealand's first fbreign tradp agreement) in a speechi bfl helialf of Mr Kateflp Dehuchi, who %as absent, said that the latter ha'd accepted the presidency of the society. He teferre'd to the incre&singly blose relatiofls With Nbw Zealafld, espfecially in trade and shipping, and Said the new Society would lefld to a still hetter understanding. Among those present were representatives of the Government, prominent business men, industrialists, local Nbw Zealanders, and Mr Elliott Davis. Mr Davis said that New Zealand had greatly benefited from Japan' s curtailment of Australian wool imports^ and hoped to c&ntinuo to do so. He pointed out that New Zealand buys much more than she sells to Japan, whereas the reverse was the case with Australia, which sells more than she buys.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 75, 15 April 1937, Page 5
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