DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

ItV TEI.EGRAI'II I'KESS ASSN - ., COI’VRIOUT. BRITAIN'S TRADE. VIEWS OF MR MASSEY. AUCKLAND. Septcmlicr H. Speaking at Mangere Mr Ma.ssey said money was pouring out of Britain at the present time for produce, which could he obtained in count l ies under the British Flag, and it makes me wonder if we are all doing our duty. Personally. T do not think we are. Every country has a right to make its own laws, hut I cannot help seeing what is going on. and feeling very strongly about it. Another matter that gave cause for thought, said Mr Massey, was the trade pact between Germany and France. If Germany could get a clear start with forty millions sterling to be raised as a loan, it might result in the must serious competition that heavily taxed England bad laid to face for many a long day. England was tbe Dominion's best market and it was to he hoped it. would remain so. but the position in England was veiy serious. If the present depression continued, it would no doubt reach New Zealand. I feel very uneasy about it. added the Premier, and the matter is never long absent from my thoughts. Sixtv years ago England was the leading industrial country of the world. That is a thing of the past. Every country is now nmniil'actiiring its own goods and in many cases sending them to England, to the detriment of the Home manufacturers and workers. The onlv wav in wheih Britain can get

hack to prosperity, is by utilising the waste spaces of her overseas possessions, thus widening her markets, and building up vigorous communities of British peoples. The only way 1 can see. is for industrious men and women to come out to the Dominions and make homes for themselves and so strengthen the markets ol the Motherland.