A Traveller in Politics.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1938, Page 4

A Traveller in Politics.

“The Prime Minister of Great Britain has .taken the road in the interests of his country,” said Mr W. Machin at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association. Mr Machin made a comparison between the action of Mr Chamberlain and the work of the commercial traveller. “When a man goes on the road in the interests of his own concern he goes not only for the benefit of himself but of the world generally,” he said.

Dominion's Early Trade. . The substantial value of the trading done by the whalers, ship-builders and flax-traders who operated on many parts of the New Zealand coast from 1800 to 1840 was mentioned by Professor J. Rutherford, professor of history at Auckland University College, when giving a university extension lecture. He said the annual export of whale oil to Australia alone often reached something in the vicinity of £50,000. When the value of the oil obtained by American and French whalers who did not take their yields to Australia was considered, it would be seen that the output from this source alone must have reached a very considerable figure.