EXPORT INCREASE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 10

EXPORT INCREASE

POLITICS AND imm TRADE BUSINESS IN ENGLAND “England is increasing her ports and reducing her prices. J»! RM INGHAM is in a good posit,,and several lines of hardvj, and fancy goods are now below ti e German prices. Buyers who fj, merly w ent to Germany are now b Ur lug in Birmingham.” .Mr. William Lyall Willis, managj. director oC the London firm of Ly a . Willis and Company, Ltd., made t, above statements on the Aorangi laj evening. He is on his eleventh tot,, of New Zealand. ' The London markets are gettitr more and more solid.” said Mr. Will “We grouse over business but v ol know that is the Englishmen's •*„" We are still feeling taxation vsr much and it is holding us back fre® increasing our factories, but is increasing her exports neverfte less.” The fact that English firms ca . now compete with the Continent ha-, given a fillip to industry generally, j, said. It had taken England a time to reach a state where h> prices were below those of the Ge man manufacturers, but she had dor it now-. “We are the only firm which haj sent a representative round the world for 25 consecutive years,” remarked Mr. Willis with justifiable pride, hwas remarking on the fact that Br tish firms and manufacturers are no, sending their personal representative; to all the oversea Dominions and thereby' increasing trade and assistic; materially with trade within the Ea pire. This “Trade Within the Empire” was growing stronger and stronger, he remarked, and was now a definite political platform. Mr. Willis considers that the ntv Government will set into power on that slogan alone. The question was a prominent one in Canada, which h» had just visited. There had been at enormous difference there in the In six y'ears. He had never seen thing so keen as the advocates it, Canada for “Trade Within tit Empire.” The new' Labour Government ii England was advocating the policy«! Empire trade and members of Parte ment Ead told him that it would pi, a very important part in the nn general election. “After all it is our only salvatioi continued Mr. Willis. “Everybody: preaching it, which is a very gosi thing.” Englishmen were now coming o; to see the Dominions for themselveand personally to see their oversea l representatives. It was interest!, to note, he said, that the number* personal representatives of Britis firms to visit the Dominions was ii creasing at the rate of 10 per ceota year. Everybody was talking of llimportance of exporting to the Dour ions, even people who had never rviously dreamed of such a thing. Mr. Willis considered that lit British motor-car must be altered fe the overseas market and he thouft that manufacturers were overcome their deficiencies in this direction i quickly as possible.