TRADE WITH GERMANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10598, 2 April 1912, Page 4

TRADE WITH GERMANY.

Mr Max B. Hablo, a.Hamburg mor-' oliant, rwlito 'is niaMing his lir.st visit to New Zealand, las visited all tbe ■southern towns, and wi! 1 loavo Auckland by tlie outgoing steamer, has expressed the opinion that German business men strongly wish to enter i.irio closer ibr :V'ueus i elation s "with New Zeal and,.,... They would, he-,thinks, I>e pleased to ' see the barriar removed •'from. the importation of New' Zealand .meat into Genraanv, but he point's cat that ib is hardly reasonable to' espccc the (3eifinan Government to .take steps i .in tfliat direction so long asitfew Zealand Tet.ain , ed, a considerable preferential duty in favour of Brita'sih pjoods a.nd against German pjoods. He is -coiivtinced .that n't is .merelya -.matter ; ■ of "tlte' 'JSinlth mad© available to the nlaeses in Ger•many. The .Conservatives.lost 24 Mats to,.the Social Democrats at the •recent. German, a«d , 3flir,. Haihlo ibdlieve® that this is dfiielargely {lamong other things) to the refusal of ■the Conservatives to admit foreign meat of any kind ,fii"o consequence b&. liaxg, tJia.ti the pocple have to pay lis '#& to 2% per jjouud for meat.. Mr Hahlo does not think that the big coal strike hi .Britain will extend to_ Germany, where at/the present- time there is n;ot nvueh industrial' unrest.