AFTER THE WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1918, Page 1

AFTER THE WAR

SPEECH BY HIGH COMMISSIONER

rAUSTRALIAN tV- N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] LONDON, July 9th. Sir Thomas MaeKcnzie was the principal speaker at a Patriotic Rally at the Town Hall Leeds. Me recalled New Zealand of thirty years ago and found we bad travelled far since. Nwe Zealand be said, as given the Motherland preference, and after the war she was going to put on a prohibitive tariff of of) per cent, against Germany, and it would be live hundred if necessary. The aim was to keep out the Germans, because they were dishonest, dishonourable and brutal. Britain must also do something to keep out unfair competition. “Arc you going,” asked Sir Thomas, “to tirade with your enemies after the war 011 the same terms as with the Allies, If so. tin* enemy will use (‘very shilling profit to train fresh armies to enslave the world.”

Sir. T. MacKcnzio, continuing, said, “Wo should sooun' the whole of the Australia!! and .You - Zealand wool for ourselves and our Allies, so as to proven t Germany ever getting oul . fiu t >y wools, then cutting lier out of that see tion of tijnde altogether. The total output of tin* South American merino was only 7A million pounds, and Germany alone used 238 million pounds. New Zealand had sent 110,000 soldiers out of a million inhabitants, but be admitted the strain on her man power res<niroes n - as now beginning to tell. New Zealand, however, could supply superabundance of foods tuffs ami raw material while America, tliauk God, .for America, had men in plenty willing to go. It was a sound policy to accept men from America and foodstuffs from New Zealand. Samoa and New Guinea must never he returned to Germanv. With the Panama Canal opened Samoa was the Charing Cross ■ of the Pacific. It- was impossible to j allow Germany to sot up aircraft stations and submarine bases there. We did not want the Island because of the land, but wo would have no brutal Germans as neighbours. I