FRANCE PROPOSES TRADE PACT WITH DOMINION
— Press Association.)
(By Telegraph
AUCKLAND, Last Night. Proposals are to be submitted to the New Zealand Government during the next two weeks by M. Edmond Meyer, French Consul in the Dominion, as a preparatory step to the establishmeut of a trade treaty between the two countries.
M. Meyer said he had discussed the matter with the Prime Minister, the Et. Hon. M. J. Savage, during October. Mr Savage then indicated that the New Zealand Government was favourably disposed toward the completion of such an agreement. M. Meyer stated that his Government was anxious to secure a trade treaty with the Dominion. He had been very surprised to learn of the recent agreement between New Zealand and Germany and eonsidered that a similar ■ treaty could he made with his country. M. Meyer said that if an agreement were aTranged, his Government would endeavour not to compete with British trade with the Dominion.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 5
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