TRADE WITH AMERICA To Practise In Dominion

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20731, 15 February 1939, Page 8

TRADE WITH AMERICA

To Practise In Dominion

BLACKLISTING SCOUTED IMPORT CONTROL EFFECTS REPLY TO BRITISH ECONOMIST (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday __ The opinion expressed by Professor N. F. Hall, in a BBC broacast that as a result of the New Zealand Government's system of import licensing and exchange control the United States might blacklist the Dominion as it had done Germany was vigorously challenged by Mr Bernard B. Carlin, a prominent American export counsel, interviewed in Wellington. At the same time, Mr Carlin said, “ the method which the Government had adopted to meet the present crisis had been tried and found wanting. A better method, he suggested, would be to establish an official rate of exchange and in addition a free market where exchange could be purchased at a higher rate.

“ This 36-year-old professor,” said Mr Carlin, referring to Professor Hall, who is professor of political economy at London University, “ has taken It on himself to prophesy what the United States may do. He says: 4 I am afraid it is quite possible that as a result of this method of trade control New Zealand may find herself in the future blacklisted along with Germany by the United States.’ “ In my own case,” added Mr Carlin, “as an American citizen and in the name of 66 American manufacturers I represent in foreign trade I take exception to any such ill-informed statement.” Mr Carlin added that economic figures showed quite a handsome balance of trade in favour of the United States and certainly neither the American Government nor American business firms would be in a humour or have any just cause to blacklist New Zealand.

A surgeon who was trained and practised in Berlin, but studied in Edinburgh for admission to the Royal College of Surgeons with a view to settling in a British country, Dr. H. Nelson, arrived in Wellington by the Dunedin Star. Dr. Nelson intends to remain in New Zealand to specialise in eye, ear, nose and throat surgery. He will also seek an opening for the practice of plastic surgery.