FRANCE AND TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1048, 12 August 1930, Page 11

FRANCE AND TRADE

AUSTRALIAN CONDITIONS CAUSE WORRY MR. COURT’S IMPRESSIONS Manufacturers in the clothing trades in France are very concerned with Australia’s import restrictions and the fact that most of the orders from Australian houses have been cancelled. Mr. A. F. Court, who returned by the Maunganui this morning after a tour of 13 months abroad, said that French people were now asking, “Why should we take fruit and other produce from Australia when the Australians will not take our goods?” There was also some concern in England regarding the new import restrictions of the Commonwealth Government. Mr. Court, who was accompanied by his wife, lias just concluded a most interesting tour of the world. He has visited England, the Continent of Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, Egypt, Arabia and Greece. One of the most delightful excursions was a tour of the Mediterranean on the palatial liner Mauretania. WONDERFUL ROADS England’s wonderful tar-sealed roads impressed Mr. Court. He did a motor tour lasting six weeks through England, Wales and Scotland. New roads are being constructed everywhere, he said, and motoring through the English countryside is a delightful experience. The reports of unemployment from New Zealand and Australia have curbed, to a certain extent, the desire of English people to emigrate. The Japanese were working veiy hard and were putting in new manufacturing plants everywhere. They seemed very keen to do business with New Zealand. France was also hard at work. There was no unemployment, said Mr. Court, and people worked from early morning till late at night. Vienna was probably the worst city he visited from the point of view of employment and finance. There seemed to be no money and no trade.

During his stay in Egypt Mr. Court visited Luxor and Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Nile, where excavations are still going on. Egypt seemed to be full of American tourists.