TRADE POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1939, Page 5

TRADE POLICY

PROFESSOR CRITICISES NEW ZEALAND BROADCAST CHALLENGED BY MR JORDAN. CORRECTION BY RADIO REQUESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 9. The New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr V/. J. Jordan, designates as ex parte and based on incorrect information unfavourable to New Zealand a broadcast by Professor N. F. Hall, professor of economics at London University, on January 4, criticising the New Zealand import control scheme. Mr Jordan protested to the British Broadc.asting Corporation authorities and requested a correction to be made by radio. The matter may be brought up in the House of Commons.

Professor Noel Frederick hall has occupied the Chair of Political Economy at the University of London since 1935, and for six years before that was senior lecturer and acting head of the Department of Political Economy. He passed through New Zealand in April, 1937, on his way to Sydney, where he took charge of the economics and intelligence department of the Bank of New South Wales for four months during the absence on leave of the then occupant of the post.