JAPANESE TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 211, 7 September 1933, Page 11

JAPANESE TRADE.

EXPANSION IN PACIFIC.

CEMENT AND SAUCE FOR NOUMEA

Another indication of Japanese trade expansion is seen In tTie fact that the vessel Asama Maru, which arrived from Noumea this morning, took the first cargo of Japanese cement and .saue^ — widely diverse Japan to the New Caledonian Island*. ' The vessel arrived empty in New Zealand, but will take away from New Zealand ports in all 5000 tons of scrap iron. She will be in Auckland for five days. The chief officer said that things were so cheap in Japan that firms in Noumea were taking such commodities aj those mentioned from Japan rather than from France and. other countries, as f jraierly. The quantity of content taken to No.imea was 800 tons. The scrap metal, he thought, was to be used in th<j building of naval vessel.?. On the way from Noumea the vessr.l wirelessed the Shintoku Maru, the Japanese training ship, which hus just left Auckland, sending greetings- The second officer on the A'-ama Man: know? the captain and some of the offic.'i-s of the training ship. In reply, the Shintoku Maru, having learned that the Asama Maru was for Auckland, asked that the ship's officers should be remembered to their friends in this city, and thanked them once again for their generous hospitality. By a coincidence, another Japanese vessel arrived later in the day, the Melbourne Maru from Wellington. She will load general cargo. It must be a long time since two Japanese va3»e'.s were in Auckland at the same time, partieularlv after a training ship of the same nation has just left.