THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1925, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES

.11 A.NDIOAVS IN InDVSTUY

’Mu comparison with Kngiand we ill New Zealand do not. Know what ‘go ..low’ means, (hie ol the most pitiful sights to he seen almost everywhere at Home is the spectacle ol three or font men doing the work ol i lie. and not doing it unite so "ell. ’ i bis was a statement made by Mr A. 11. Hislop on i eturning io Wellington irom a visit to Britain. Things industrial must indeed he verv had there, and it is no surprise to lea . u of the amount of work the British key industries are depriving themselves ol simply because, British customers cannot afford to penalise themselves by ] atriutically placing orders at Home when they can get them executed on the Ccittineiil for a great deal less money. In a similar way there is a pronounced invasion of ' British markets by Continental mauufactureis. notably German. ! bus. while we read ol British shipowning linns placing orders lor internal combustion engined vessels on the Contiuei.t a.t the same time we are informed that supplies lor the use ol members of Parliament themselves at Westminster are being procured by the Government Department, concerned from t> Continent. England's foreign trade turns provide evidence enough ol the seriousness of the position: hut cause

and effect are so closely interwoven that the would-be refoimer is confronted with something of tangle.— "Dumdin Star.’’