The world-wide ramifications of Soviet Russia in its attempts to gain access to overseas markets is illustrated in the fact that safety matches made in Russia are on sale in Auckland. The label is printed in English and the only indication of the country of origin is in very small print, “Made in U.S.S.R.” Russia’s national mark, the hammer and sickle, is absent. It is worth while remembering that, under the so-called five year plan, the Soviet Government has a monopoly of Russia’s export trade, and that under the conscripted labour conditions any price renlised in outside markets, no matter how small, is profit. If Russia finds it worth while to send matches to New Zealand the point might he made that it would ’/e more profitable for New Zealanders to insist on Empire products.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1931, Page 2
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