OVERSEA TRADE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 235, 26 May 1932, Page 5

OVERSEA TRADE

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Hf LONDON, Tuesday. Kjr Thonias Wilford, High Com■ioner for New Zealand, presidKt the New Zealand Society's lunfflgn at the Savoy Hotel, recalled SK;it was the jubilee of the frozen m trade. The first eargo of mutHpd larnb arrived by the ship DunBKon May 24, 1882, and New Zea!D"i Rwas now supplying Britain with . KO, 000 sheep and lambs yearly. tyflB. Walter Runciman, president of yit1)^K;0ar(i Trade, said that Britain ip«Krepared encourage trade with [ jjBfcountry in the world if given l0ld-^Blance) but because the Domin-ster-^R1'6 siving her a greater chance intJKhe °thers she is going to Ottawa ^oy-BKhined to dovetail her interests jxne^BPii'it of mutual helpfulness. Marshal Sir William Bird^^Kpaid tribute to New Zealand's M^Kficent troops in the war. He d*d n°t wish to meet better or hghters or finer gentlelie® 3rW' guests included the Earl and geis^Kess °f Liverpool, Countess t iHk Sir James Mills, Sir Gordon ieid^Ked an(i Mr Malcolm MacDonn