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Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1929, Page 4

‘‘As far as I can gather, everyone in New Zealand seems anxious to buy British goods, and it is my duty to see that their requirements are made xUiown at Home.” Thus,' Mr L. A. Paish, his Majesty’s Trade Commiss.oner for New Zealand, summed up his position in the course of a conversation with an Otago Daily Times reporter. Mr Paish had arrived from Invercargill, and explained 1 that his visit was not official, but that he was merely making a brief tour of the principal centres to establish contact with the various commercial and industrial bodies. Aluiough, he said, he had

been in New Zealand only a short time, lie had already been impressed by the extraordinary loyalty of the people of dhe Dominion to the Home Country, and he hoped that this loyalty would form the basis of stronger trade relations. The Homeland took practically the whole of the Dominion’s main exports, and he would like to see it, in return, supply the bulk of the Dominion’s requirements It was rather a oragedy, for instance, that Great Britain had such a small share of New Zealand’s motor trade, and he knew chat many New Zealanders felt that too. In this connection, therefore, he would like the people of the Dominion to study closely the new models of British cars whi h were coming and had come on the market, and if they were not suitable he would like to hear specifically in what respect they failed to fill the bill. It was useless to talk of their not fulfilling Dominion conditions if no specific facts were given. Tn conclusion, Mr Paish remarked on the cordiality of tne reception which had been accorded him wherever he had been in New Zealand. Nothing' could have been warmer, and, in fact, he felt quite at home before he had been in the Dominion a week.