The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918 POST-WAR TRADE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 390, 9 July 1918, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918 POST-WAR TRADE

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The efforts now being made by the British Trade Commissioner to direct attention to the importance of fostering Britrsh trade after the war must commend themselves to the whole trading community. Far-seeing men in all parts of the Empire recognise that this development will be vitally necessary as a means of recuperation. Among those who are alive to this fact is Captain Carmichael, an Australian officer wlio has, after returning from the front, rendered splendid service Dy a successful effort to raise a thousand volunteers to accompany him back to the front. Speaking recently at a complimentary function tendered to him in Sydney by the Chamber of Manufacturers, Captain Carmichael said almost every civilised nation was at war, and yet not one of them was so preoccupied with it but it had time also to consider how to retain the advantage of victory when it bail been achieved. Britain had appointed her Trade Commissioners and her central governing Board to proceed 011 a definite plan to regain our trade supremacy. Germany was organising to recapture it after the war, "I noticed the other day," he proceeded, "an important statement to the effect that very large capital was available in Great Britain for establishing factories in Australia at the base oi production, instead of freighting the bulkier raw material abroad for manufacture. It Is one of the many signs that at last the Capitalists of England are waking up to the necessity for economic organisation. You, as the centre of the manufacturing industries here, in order to organise a plan of campaign and successfully conduct it, must have a centre at the world's commercial centre which can supply you with information gathered on the spot about the quality, style, get-up, aud standardising of your productions, but more especially be continually searching out new markets for that constantly increasing list of commodities that can be —(a) more economically manufactured at the place of pioduction, and (b) that can in part be manufactured there, as is shown to have

|irrti done ui such enormous quantities In tin- intricacies of trade relations between England and Germany in pre-war days." This appeal to the manufacturers and producers of Australia applies with equal force to this Dominion. Especially does the Captain's advice apply to the great primary products, whose output can be so greatly increased in the matter of new markets. Only by a thorough system of organisation of our products, manufactures, and markets 011 both sides of the water —and in no other way—shall we be able to retain in peace the result of our tremendous sacrifice in war, if we win, as we must believe we shall.