TRADE WITH DOMINIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19050, 22 June 1925, Page 7

TRADE WITH DOMINIONS.

A MISSION FROM FRANCE. BID TO FORESTALL GERMANY. [from our own correspondent. ] LONDON. May 14. A commercial mission which, on tho initiative of a group of Strasbourg business men, headed by M. Kern-Marsaud, is to visit Australia and New Zealand, will leave France in September and will probably be absent six or eight months. It is hoped that very considerable business will be done, both from tho point of view ol improving the French market in Australia and of finding new openings for Australian and New Zealand goods in France. M. Kern-Miirsaud declares that ho first had tho idea of sending a group of business men to Australia in order to expand the commercial relations between the two countries, during the last two months of the war, when lie was attached to the Australian forces on the Somme. The necessity of such a mission is now becoming urgent, he argues, as the prohibition of the importation of German goods into Australia cannot continue for ever; certain German goods are already making their reappearance on the Australian market, and France must act at once if she is to take the place formerly occupied in Australia by Germany. In the first place the mission will endeavour to conclude direct contracts with the principal firms likely to be interested in French goods; secondly, it will create local agencies of the type suggested in the report of Genera] Pau's mission to Australia and New Zealand ; and, thirdly, it will collect information with regard to exports and imports. Eventually it is hoped • to establish a carc;o service from Australia to Marseilles.