FOREIGN GOODS IN NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1913, Page 11

FOREIGN GOODS IN NEW ZEALAND.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, May :>:?. An exhibition was opened thio week at the offices of the London Chamber of Commerce uf examples of foreign hardware, hollow-ware, and tool-; which find favour in the New Zealand market. The exhibits were sent to this country by His .Majesty's Trades Commissioner in New Zealand, acting upon a recent instruction by the Board of Trade to Commissioners in the self-governing Dominions to colleft samples of all kinds of foreign hardware, hollow-ware and tools which have been successful in competition with similar gnods ot British origin. There has already b~en a display of South African s.nmple.s in Birmingham. Sheffield, and London, and the present collection has bePii shov.-n in two sections in the sa.me provincial centres. The goods are principally of American and Gorman origin, -and include axes, lock-, carters, tacks, hay and other fork.-. lawn mowers, farriers and carpenter>' tools, stocks and dies, in addition t'i ena.mei-Tvare. lamps, and other articles of domes-tie furniture. In forwarding them, the Trade Commissioner staled that SJie fact that these linos were snM I>y New Zealand firms meant. " in view of the preference which generally exist- for British goods, one of two tl.ings'— either there is no British make equal in price or quality or suited to the local requirements to he obtained, nr. if therp lie such, the have nnt "made their jrnorl* known us well as they inisht."' The collection nill he on view for three r."i-k-. and -linul.l bp of value to exT>ori-γ-it-,1 eye-i n= an indication of the class of crnnds which mrnst r-ndily fiml- favour with Ye.v Z":i!and consumer*.