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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1933, Page 8

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°MR H. HORTON’S OPINIONS

WELLINTON. November 22

The opinion that New Zealand should definitely assert itself in the matter of opposing quotas is held by Mr 11. Horton, managing director of the “New Zealand Herald,” who, with Mrs Horton, returned today by the Rarigitane from England after an absence of about seven months.

In an interview Mr Horton said that with regard to quotas the British Government, for reasons of expediency, was anxious to conciliate foreign nations, such as Russia, in trade, but his belief was that, the British public was much more sympathetic to New Zealand in her difficulties , than the politicians. There was a very strong feeling that the overseas Dominions would, in the case of butter he very wise to resist strongly any curtailment as long as Russian butter was alowcd to come freely into Great Britain. “My opinion is that New Zealand should even more definitely I assert itself in opposition to quotas,” Ihe said. “If there were any strainI i;ig of that fr'elatfori,ship between

Great Britain and New Zealand over

the. quota system, I believe that the Dominion would have t’he

, strong baching of the British pub--1 lie, 1 and the British politician would ;; ;fmd that he was taking up the > wrong line.” '