BUY BRITISH GOODS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 73, 29 April 1930, Page 4

BUY BRITISH GOODS

SOAIE INTERESTING COMMENTS. BUSINESSMEN'S OBSERVATIONS. "I tliink if we put a prohihitive tariff on foreign imports, we would do 5, lot to relieve unemployment, said Mr G. A. Maddison, in Hastings iast jxipkt. He went on to instance the fact that the tariff on onions from New Zealand had been raised to £14 per ton in the United States, but the duty in New Zealand on onions trom tJ at country was only £1 10s per ton. "If they are not prepared to accept our produce we should reciprocate and put up ti high, tariff wall against their gocds," he said. "Ynother thing 1 can't understand., said Mr Maddison, "is that Amencan apples can be purchased in this pluce. i\lr F. S. Budd mentioned that m Waipawa yeaterday, he found a iiamphlet, 'in his car, distributed by someone in Waipawa, and this pamphlet was pnnted in U.S.A. Mr H. R. French pomted out that ho received books printed by Raphael Tick and Co. and on one side was marked "By appointment to the Royal Family." , On the _ other side were the words, "Printed m Bavana. Last year's Christmas cavds by the same iirm, sold in New Zealand, were "printed in Sweden." "But that s nothing," he added. "Take the stamps used hy the British Post Office uiging people to buy British goods. It is reported that half of these stamps are manufactured in tli© Lnited States and the other half on the Continent of Europe."