OVERSEA TRADE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 228, 19 May 1932, Page 5

OVERSEA TRADE

(Press. Assn.

NOVEL CO-OPERATION PLAN TO ASSIST EXPORTS EMPLOYEE RECIPROCATION

— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A scheme designed to bring about eloser co-operation between importers and exporters for the encouragement of overseas trade was propounded at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last night. In consists of a campaign to promote the sale of New Zealand goods among the employees of English companies which received substantial orders from New Zealand. The basic principle of the scheme is that one section should help the other, and in doing so help itself and the country. The promoter quoted a recent happening which led to the scheme being formulated A New Zealand firm had passed on to its English principals a substantial order from a certain power board. The management of the firm considered that as the order was a large one it would not be out of place to suggest that the English company should reciprocate hy asking its employees to purchase New Zealand goods The suggestion was forwarded to England, and a reply was cabled back that 1000 of the company's employees had decided to purchase New Zealand butter. That principle, it was thought, might "be indefinitely extended. It was decided that members should consider the scheme in detail, and the discussion will he resumed at the next meeting.