SCOTTISH MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 15

SCOTTISH MARKET.

TRADE WfTH NEW ZEALAND. GROWTH IN RECENT YEARS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 15. The fact that New Zealand to-day was shipping to Glasgow nearly three times the quantity of meat, six times the amount of butter, and two and a half times the quantity of cheese it did i in 1927. and the fact that in the past eight years two shipping companies alone in the Dominion had placed orders on the Clyde for 20 vessels, were emphasised by the New Zealand Minister of Finance and Minister of Marketing, the Hon. Walter Nash, at a luncheon tendered to him by the Lord Provost and Corporation of Glasgow on Wednesday. The Lord Provost, Mr. John Stewart, in proposing the health of Mr. Nash, referred to the efforts that the Clyde Navigation Tru* had made toward improving the relations between New Zealand and Glasgow. As a result the total trade had more than doubled since 1927. Within the paat year a record had been created in the volume of imports coming direct to Glasgow from the Dominion. Mr. Nash would be interested to learn that Glasgow, like New Zealand, was doing well under its first Labour Administration. Glasgow, too, was doing everything possible for the development of trade.

Mr. Nash, in reply, said that New Zealand was. in the opinion of many people, one of the most productive areas in the world, and it had not yet been completely developed. Speaking of the. improvement in trading relations between Scotland and the Dominion, he said that there was an apparent increase each succeeding year in the trade lietween Glasgow and New Zealand. Last year a record was created when no fewer than thirty-three vessels sailed into the Clyde bringing 42,300 tons of produce. The Dominion shipped through Glasgow two and a half times ae much meat as did Australia. The Dominion was endeavouring to increase its sales of butter and cheese through Glasgow, and its programme for the present season provided for over 9000 tons of butter, which was a record, and nearly 5300 tons of cheese. New Zealand's operations, of course, had to be guided by the price returns which all the British markets would give. On this point the Minister said he was glad to state that Glasgow generally well upheld it* claim to be a good market. Mr. Nash emphasised that much of the prosperity of the Clyde depended upon the New Zealand trade. Not only did the Dominion buy goods manufactured in Glasgow and its surroundings, but both its exports and imports were to a large extent carried in ships built on the Clyde.