PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3497, 27 May 1920, Page 5

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

NEW ZEALAND AND BRITAIN. DOMINION IN HIGH FAVOUR. WELLINGTON, May 26. "So far as advertising New Zealand business is concerned/' remarked the British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Mr R. W. Dalton, in speaking at to-day's meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, "you may take it'that the Dominion has been advertised in such a way during the last five years that she will be well looked after by the British manufacturer." The bearing of New Zealand soldiers during their sojourn in England, he added, had spread throughout the

length and breadth of the country aR

intense liking for the Dominion, and' the British manufacturer was prepared to supply the New Zealand trade mor@ readily than almost any other country in the world. As a matter of fact he believed tha the Dominion was already receiving a larger proportion of Eng- * lish exports than any other country. ■"You send," he continued, "a 100 per cent, order and receive, say, 20 per cent, while most others receive only 15 per cent." Ouce the British manufacturers got back really into their stride they would "sweep the Dominion V with their output until they had recaptured their prewar share (75 per cent.) of New Zealand's import trade. At present their ratio was only'34* per cent. British manufacturers w r ere keen, and above all they were honest and straight. He believed that of 90 per cent, of the manufacturers of England. New Zealand had had a straight deal for that reason.