4 AUGUST 1923, Page 13

A HINDRANCE TO BRITISH TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with great interest " Natal Settler's " letter in your Spectator of May 16th. I, too, have suffered in the same way. At the present moment I have been waiting two solid months for a pair of English-made wirecutters that were to be sent up from the coast for me on order ; it looks as though the order has been sent on to England. All my wire had to be ordered for me. English-made tools you cannot get here, as well as other commodities too numerous to mention and in the manufacture of which England excels. It is as " Natal Settler " says ; you are offered the foreign- made article every time, and very few people will go to the trouble of insisting on the English article.—I am, Sir, &c.,