TRADE WITH THE FAR EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 58, 10 March 1933, Page 6

TRADE WITH THE FAR EAST.

A committee, we learn, is set up in Wellington to organise a display of New Zealand goods in Hongkong, China, on May 24, 1933, j the Empire Day, and credit certainly should be I given to the Minister of Commerce and Industries, the Hon. R. Masters and Mr. W. Clinkard, head of the Department, for making first timid steps in the direction of opening new Eastern markets, even on paper only. Let us be, however, quite confident that the response will be great and enthusiastic among our producers, exporters and manufacturers now that the bottom fell out of the British market. We have already missed —through 110 fault of ours—the opportunities presented by the splendid exhibition of Australian produce and products held in Hongkong, China, in November last. The cliance of making real business now in May is not one that we would willingly let slip. Every effort must he made to represent New Zealand properly and to secure the finest display, especially of the Auckland Province exhibits. The matter is very important and urgent. The firm of S. T. Williamson and Co., Ltd., will act officially on behalf of New Zealand as organisers at the other end, consignees, deliverers, showmen and salesmen. This is a Hongkong steamship and navigation company of excellent repute and standing (Mr. S. T. Williamson is a New Zealander by birth), which, in the absence of a national New Zealand concern able to handle our interests and representation in the l'ar East and China, is showing us the way, ana how to deal with the question. ALEXANDER S. TETZNER.