TRADE WITH THE FAR EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 145, 22 June 1933, Page 6

TRADE WITH THE FAR EAST.

The Chinese Consul in ' New Zealand, Mr. Chunhow H. Pao, had but to commence speaking about China being unquestionably our jrichest potential market for two leaders of our butter manufacturing and marketing industry to declare in Whangarei that such a suggestion shows a lack of knowledge of the taste and position of the Eastern people. For the last two years scores of very competent New Zealanders and business men from the East have been advocating the necessity of opening trade with the East. And only the two gentlemen in question were decidedly opposed to such natural endeavours. The observations of Mr. F. J. Nathan, Mr. S. W. M. Stilling and Mr. H. Clay (to quote only the last few days), just back from Sydney and the East, are positive that the venture of the trade ship Nieuw Holland in the East has been very successful in enlarging and opening up trade with the East in canned goods, butter, leather goods, hams, bacon, jams, woollen goods, etc., the products of primary and secondary industries. Great interest is manifested, new orders and agencies are created, and satisfactory inquiries come from ports of call in the East, as cabled in the news. And we are told here that it is impossible for Eastern peot.le to buy our produce at all. ALEXANDER S. TETZNEE.