GERMAN PERTINACITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 30 June 1916, Page 4

GERMAN PERTINACITY.

A leading Dmiediu merchant is of opinion that, at the conclusion of the war, it, will take a very considerable effort to keep out German goods, notwithstanding the drastic measures with this end in view adopted at the important International Conference recently held in Paris. He stated, over, that, if the people were patriotic enough to purchase only goods manu-j factored in Britain or in Allied coun-j tries, the resolutions of the Paris Conference could the more easily bej given effect to. He then proceeded,J says the Otago Daily Times, to give an illustration of the pertinacity of a' Gerhum merchant. This merchant has his headquarters in Sydney, and had a very extensive and lucrative business: in the Dominion. On the outbreak of, war the German took the precaution to communicate with his customers, informing them that he was a naturalised British subject. The Dunedin merchant, however, at once cut him out of his list of business connections and left the letters unanswered. Some months ago the German came to New Zealand, and waited on the Dunedin' merchant no fewer than three* times in an endeavour again to opeir’Tip business relations. On each occasion he was politely, but firmly, informed that the Dunedin house had nb* further orders for him. Judge of the Dunedin merchant’s surprise when he received a communication from the German last week, offering for sale a line of American goods. Some of these German agents, he said, will simply not be “choked off.” The Dunedin merchant continued that ho could not definitely prove that the goods offered by the German referred to during the first months of the war came from Germany, but he had a deep suspicion that they did.