GERMAN TRADE

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1928, Page 1

GERMAN TRADE

“ DEVELOPING RAPIDLY.” AUCKLAND, September 4. “ Gerinahy has no gold, and so it is by trade and by trade only that we can make our reparation payments under the Dawes Plan. • This plan was accepted by Germany. We will be burdened by an additional one and a. half milliard marks'libxt year, niid therefore we are making every fcffdrt to widen our trade relation's with rest of the world.” The above statement was made by Dr H. R. Hemmeuj Acting German Consul-General for'Australia 1 , who arrived in Auckland by the Ulmiaroa this morning. The visitor 'said that German trade with Australia and New Zealand was developing rapidly, but lie contended that•' as yet the trade balance was against Germany owing to the large amount of'Australian and New Zealand primary products which were shipped there 1 . lie had been attached to the German Embassy in London and the Foreign Office at Berlin for a number of years. He attended meetings at Geneva, and was thoroughly acquainted with ' tlie international situation. He would like tlie public, both in Now Zealand and Australia, to know how the feeling between Germany and England had altered. There was a genuine feeling of relationship between tlie two nations, but lie lealised that in these far-flung portions of the British Empire that “more friendly ” attitude was not so pronounced on account of tlie distance, but- lie noticed in Australia that it was being gradually consummated. The Locarno Pact and Kellogg Pact evidenced tlio feeling he was endeavouring to explain and emphasise. Dr. Henimen, who is accompanied by Mrs Hemhien, intends to make a tour of New Zealand. He said that he lmd heard of the scenic beauties of the Dominion, and was anxious to see liow they compared with the attractions of Switzerland and Iceland.