EFFECT OF SLUMP

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1930, Page 7

EFFECT OF SLUMP

CHANGE IN AUSTRALIANS,

MR WILL APPLETON’S VIEW.

' .-aF ; ; SYDNEY, August 7. There Is one man at lease who lias confidence in the future of Australia, and he is a New Zealander—Mr Will Appleton,' managing director of the Charles Haines Advertising Agency at Wellington. He has been in Australia for two months studying general conditions, and now lie lias decided to op/Mi branches, of his business in Sydney and Melbourne.

“This.', trouble has changed Australia and Australians more than the 'f4»p|e seem to imagine,” he said, referring to the current degression. “I see a ihapge every whei ft,-'anid it is a change for the good. People are doing their business niuch tnoie economically than . when I was last here. In tne past, yjjen ; a visiting business man came to, Australia he was entertaineu in a vrajr ch'at was almost embarrassing. This business entertainment was carried to'’lengths that were not equalled even/ in London or New York. This time I find that things have all changed. " .

“And a greater change even than this have I found in the relations between employers and employees. The o]d antagonism has died, and they are .together. These two things atone are.enough to indicate to me that it is safe ,to invest money here. Even in : the-hotels you notice a different atmosphere. The waiter and the bell boy and all i of. them are anxious to do their-hest,to get the country out of its mess.”' • Mr Appleton has been asked when lie returns .tot'address • the Wellington Chamber/of Commerce on the future of trade-between Australia and New Zealand.. Because of this he has been making a'careful investigation into the trade relations between the two coun*tries. “In the last four years,” he said in Melbourne the other day, “the export trade from Australia to New Zealand ■ Has fallen by £2,000,000, or per-cent. It came about when Australia f>shut out some of New Zea-

land’s;-.products. '.Blit altogether Australia 'Wasttho bigger, loser, New Zeak.land 'is.;-.gnkipus... the..-barriers r down, again;. i A' '■ coirfereric'e of business men . from , the two countries would hours’.; ’ * “New , Zealand, thinks so much of ‘Austral;’dir trade that- she has recently appointed <a, Trade Commissioner to Sydney, t-;Australia phould bp-the- same in New Zealand. ' We can never hope to be .a' rpanuf ac.turing pountiy, -and, we are willing .to buy from' Anstra liar A i presen|X|lieca.use. of the tariff -barriers between,, Australia and New.>;,Zealand, we arei-jirnjxirting thousands of cases of - presery«l';|ruit from California, and .a h proportionate amount of, dried v fruit's and ‘Absur&lAyhen: you. cqnsider-t he’positi on s of Australia and New.. Zealand, -‘ There are 45)000 New Zealanders; making a; livelihood in Australi a,r and ‘ 5-5,000 Australians in New land. The . countries are, indeed^l^jely ”. -. s