A TRIP ABROAD.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 12

A TRIP ABROAD.

MR. J. C. COOPER’S IMPRESSIONS ADVICE FOR NEW ZEALAND. ’ April 8. Mr. J. C. Cooper, managing director of the Wellington Farmers’ Meat Company, delivered an address to the Masterton Chamber of Commerce on Friday on his trip to England, America, and the Continent. Mr. Cooper said that when the slump in America lifts, New Zealand would find a good market in the United States for New Zealand produce. Every country had a good, fast passenger service except New Zealand, which possessed a tramp service, with cabins fitted. It would be a great advantage for business men to be able to go to England calling at American ports, and return home in three months. The Government of New Zealand should insist, in mail contracts, that the speed of the steamers .should betaken into consideration, and an improvement should be insisted on. Ihe effect of the slump would be felt in America far more seriously than in New Zealand, because America had obtained higher prices for her goods than New Zealand.

In America meat had brought the high price of 2s per pound, and wool 10s per pound, while hind there which, before the war, brought £2O per acre, sold in war-time at £lOO per acre..

The majority of Americans were not hostile to'the’British. .If America discriminated against New Zealand in trade, then Now Zealand should retaliate, as Canada had done. London business men were the smartest in the world; smarter by far than the Americans, and if they were excelled at all. then it was by Glasgow business men only. The people at Home looked upon the Dominions as being behind the timeri and “hayseeds.” German trade competitiornavas what the British workers had to fear. German goods were now largely sold in England, and were undermining the English trade.