SOMETHING WRONG
WITH OUB ISLAND TRADE, NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star,") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Professor J. MacMillan Brown, of Christchurch, who has just returned from a visit to the Cook Islands, speaking to an interviewer on trade matters connected with the group, said that if a canning plant -were introduced pineapples could be canned in large quantities, and if a drying plant were established, bananas could be turned into a product similar to dried figs.
" But there is a certain lack of enterprise in the Islands," he said, " and still more in New Zealand commercial circles. The traders in the Islands told mc that it was cheaper to go to England or America for their goods, and to export their cop-a to America. There is something wrong in the relation of New Zealand to these Islands. There ought to be a class of traders in the Dominion who would deal in copra and at the mtnie time supply goods as cheaply as they can be supplied from England, with the freight added, but the traders all said that New Zealand merchants wanted too much profit. With Samoa also under New Zealand law, there ought to bo enough enterprise in the Dominion to capture the copra trade in the Samoan 1 and Cook Groups.''
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 209, 3 September 1919, Page 7
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