IMPERIAL SENTIMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 5

IMPERIAL SENTIMENTS.

EXPRESSED BY A CANADIAN.

JRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND.

FOSTER ING TRADE RELATIONSHIPS.

"I am pong tnkn away a. bit of this fine ilt,t -' <-" ,,ntr .V of yours when I go back to Canada." said Mr. E. F. Hutching*. of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to a "Star" reporter this mornil as he produced an up-to-date pocket edition of a film camera. "I have got a series of moving pictures from our own town, and away out on the great j Or th-wcst territory in mid-winter to iunrmer in New Zealand. When I get jack," ho. continued, "I am going to call ; he 'film 'From Mid-winter to Midjummer in two groat British Dominions.' Then when wo g< , t home we can enjoy md appreciate all our travels over and over again. We can get our friends round us, and. in answer to questions jiow we enjoyed cur trip and what did we see, we'll just show 'em. Another thing, 't will enable people with whom 7fe come In contact on our travels to fully realise what great countries these are belonging to the British Empire avrar down south here. Do you know our folk do not realise what you people possess. I didn't myself till we started out. Of course we heard a lot, but man you've got to see it all to realise it." Mr. Hutchings, who is accompanied by his wife, is a well-known commercial magnate and president , of several large companies operating in the sister Dominion, arrived by the Aorangi from Vancouver yesterday. He is completing a most comprehensive tour of the world, and it was liis intention to "hop off at Auckland" as he expresed it, "and have a look at this Britain of the south" for himself. After consultation with, the Canadian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand (Mr. C. M. Croft) however, the party with whom Mr. and Mrs. Hutchings are travelling decided to go on to Sydney this evening, and "do New Zealand" from the Blull' to Auckland, after touching at the New South Wales capital and 'Melbourne and join the Niagara on her next outward trip to Vancouver. Trade Conditions In Canada. Touching on trade conditions in Canada, Mr. Hutchings pointed out that le lived in the centre of that Dominion, which was, as he expressed it, the centre of the world commercially as well as geographically. Away up in the northern territory the magnetic-pole was situated, and it was there t*at the greatest mineral belt in the world was to be found.

"In order to prove what I say is correct," said Mr. Hutchings, "the latest statistics which 1 have with mc show that Canada produces 90 per cent of the world's metals. Other figures wliicji might be interesting to your readers in connection with our. country are also illuminating and show your sister Dominion's trade. For instance, Canada produces 88 per cent of the world's asbestos, 83 per cent of the world's cobalt, 35 per cent of the pulp-wood, 25 per cent of the timber, 20 per cent of the cured fish, 20 per cent of the silver, 18 per cent of the oats, 15 per cent of the potatoes, 12 per cent of the wheat, 7 per cent of the gold, and 5 per cent of the copper. In connection with the gold production, Canada stands in third place in the world's output." "Regarding pulp for paper making, is there any chance of the price coming down?" the "Star" representative asked. "No, I don't think so," Mr. Hutchings replied. "You see the pulp areas of the world are getting less, and mills have to pay more for the raw material. Then again, forests are getting so far away and the cost of production is going up. No," he said musingly, "in my opinion I think pulp will go up. Yes, there'll be a rise all right."'

Fostering British Trade. "What are your impressions regarding British trade generally?" "Well, I've been all over the world and in exery country, with the exception of Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and we hope to go to the latter country next year. I'm a Britisher, and I <lo love to see that old flag of ours flying , . You have got to travel in other countries to know what it means, and to realise what a great heritage has been left to us. Very few of us do, and my motto in business is push trade wherever the British flag flies. Let British countries and their trade follow that flag, Keep up with it, and never get too far behind it. Other countries are getting in where British goods should be selling to-day. The more I travel the more I realise what a wonderful Empire- we have. The trouble is there is not enough white people to fill it. "Take these British countries of the Pacific. Great ricott, man, you've got three great empires clown here within the Empire, and that old British flag flies over them all. Here is a wonderful and most extensive field for trade development within the Empire. At Home we have another empire within the Empire. Out in our great North-West territory there is also a new world to develop both commercially and otherwise. As far as I can see, and from what I know and have been told, these three empires of which I speak have hardly been touched as yet. People in Canada know you have these cotmtries here, but we ha.ye got to see them to realise it. But they must be developed to their fullest capacity in order to get the desired results," he added. "We in Canada." Mr. Hutchings continued, "could and should develop much better trade relations with New Zealand, and ot-hr parts of the British Empire in the Pacific, and you in turn could and should reciprocate. That is roy impression even before I see and travel over this great Tittle country of yours. And from all I've heard and read of it .those impressions will have been fully realised when we leave by the Niagara in March next. Anyway I'll be able to tell our Canadian business men and others, as well as show them convincingly what this young Britain of the South is like, and what she is capable of doing for the Empire's good."