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Show ARflEHlGJUl PRODUCTS" IMIIPOES United States Tires Prove Worth to Australian Buyers Buy-ers cf Automobiles.' The American commercial invasion of foreign markets has long been a mat-tor mat-tor of concern to merchants in various parts of the world. Hotv to stop the steady increase in sales of American-made joods and substitute sub-stitute their own domestic products is one of the vital trade questions that such merchants are called upon to solve. Tiie superiority of American poods, the fact that thev are durable, handsome hand-some in appearance, and made to sell at an attractive price? has held these markets mar-kets for America despite the boycotts and crusades carried on against such articles. How this affects the automobile and tire trarle, and ho-.v American tiros are ufec"fuHv competing in foreign lands is shown bv a letter recently received from -Mr. Norman L. Emms, proprietor of the Takaka-Nelsou Motor Service of New Zealand. Mr. Emms states that his motor stases operate over bar roads and severe grades and that despite tho fact his American cars, which are equipped with United Htates "Nobby" Tread tires, make their runs regularly and carry loads that would be called heavv even for level, well-paved high-wav high-wav "traffic. "OurV-uns," writes Mr. Emms "would put the best tires to the most severe tos. The steep grades and the fact that the roads are of ten muddy, call for the best sort of anti-skid protection. pro-tection. We have found that with L'nited States Nobbv Tread tires we ! receive far better anfi-skid service than we can with anv others; and, furthermore, further-more, that wc .get mileage averaging from Y OHO to 14,000 miles to tne tiro, this over some of the hardest roads to be found in the world." Mr. Emms's letter, telling as it docs of the make-good oualKv of American-made American-made tires, and of l'i:it"d States tires partic..i!;.rh Mi"WS wliv these goods are (holding their own iu the face of fierce ' coin pet 1 1 ion. |