HELP FROM AUSTRALIA

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21362, 5 March 1941, Page 7

HELP FROM AUSTRALIA

1 COMMON WAR EFFORT c 2 PROMISE TO NEW ZEALAND l " (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Wednesday An assurance that Australia would 5 render New Zealand every possible •> i assistance within her power—naval, s | military and in the field of munitions e production—in the common war e effort of the two countries, and that she invited the Dominion’s closest " co-operation in finding the best r means of using their united strength, was given in a broadcast last night e by the Hon. H. L. Anthony, AusP tralian Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Minister of Commerce. Mr y Anthony is visiting New Zealand to confer with the Government, para i ticularly upon problems connected | with meat and other staple export • products. J People must learn to do without a j number of things, to lessen personal available Ip their Governments for n the prosecution of the war, he said, o Already export industries were beil ginning to feel the strain ol war conditions. The overseas markets for d apples and pears had disappeared d i almost overnight and the difficulty is ! over meat might yet become more >d ' severe. In this matter Australia and n : New' Zealand had much in common, s’ ' and by co-operation they might ir 1 lessen the effect of loss of markets upon Iheir economic life.