JAPANESE TRADE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16208, 10 May 1918, Page 7

JAPANESE TRADE.

VISIT OF CONSUL-GENERAL.

POSSIBILITIES FOR NEW ZEALAND.

-j-Hon Seizaburo Shimisu, JapanJ, Consul-General for Australasia A the South Sea Islands, arrived m XiStchurch yesterday from Welling--He will remain in this city till Sorrow, and then proceed to DuneJL returning subsequently to Wei-I Son en route to Australia. "T, shimizu has been for over twenty Jrt in tho Consular service of Japan, Cjntj which time he has been star ?in the United States, Canada, : rfii and Hong Kong, and during I t wst four and a half years in; i cidney- This is his fir c Rt t -' ! : fajjd, the purpose of which in .he; < is to pay his respects to Ukh? lovernor-Oenoral, the Ministry, j Pf> tbe public bodies of the large! 1 'f t L and secondly, to cultivate ana J parage trade relations between New ' interview with a "Press" re-1 Atr yesterday, M. Shimizu stared | Ct hiß country was now a large pttrS»Lr of wool, and as soon as the war over and the existing restrictions VL removed they expected to buy a New Zealand. Two Japan- - ftp shipping companies intended to ??L,d their lines to tho Dominion. From what he had seen of New Zeal.nd it was a wonderful country -with „e»t possibilities of development, and «blt it produced was very different from what Japan produced and manufactured* in fact, tho trade possibihJL between the two countries very bright. Tallow, hides, Ittd wool were required verv urgently br Jaron, and it might bo tnat in the foture she would becoine a purchaser Jf meat. Afc present mutton was too Mgh in price for her people. Asked if it were a fact that whilst the Government and mass of the peonle of Japan were pro-Ally the commercial class were largely pro-Gorman, 31. Shimizu said this was not so. Army officers who had been trained in Germany might bo admirers of the German gyrtam, bat tho discipline in the army very strict, atid whatever their priraie opinion might be they had to do what they were told by the Goverftnent.' iDDHESS TO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. l'fisterday afternoon M. Shimizu addrtrted members of the Canterbury Chifiiber of Commerce upon trade possibUiiies between New Zealand" and Japan Mr C. H. Hewlett, president of the Chamber, presided over a good attendance and welcomed the visiton . 31. Shimizu said ho was greatly impreaßed by the possibilities of Canterand" New He conreyfii the cordial friendly, sentiments of Us COUhtry to this Dominion. Not oily had Japan and Britain been working together in the war i but they hoped to krtp the peace of the Pacific. (Applause.) The trade relations of New Zealand and Japan had been drawing together very satisfactorily, particusince the outbreak of the war. Japan was sending goods, to New Zealafld ih much larger quantities tbatt she "tent before tho war, and they had every reason to expect thftt the grpwth of the tfrade would becoine greater and grtatef. The Japanese people required wliat was produced in this country, tilings that were, not produced in Japan, wool, tallow, and bides; and wheat as well. They asked that trade between Japftii and New Zeitlatid should ho established not during ■ the war, but that it should be cultivated and continued after the # war. That i'wos what they were Working for. (Ap•jJliiUtte.) Japan possessed a very high- . class trado with Etlrope and Ataerica; also entered for tho cheaper markets B - Chifla, Jtidia, and the South Sea Hands. Tho Japanese must remem'Jfer that the Australian and Now Zealand morkots did not Want any of the ifHi&p goods Whicli wont to China, ' (flaia, and the South SCa Islands, but the godds frhlch went to America and , EtirOpO, Owing to the War 1 , tho ujtattfacturei-si of Japan httd beoti iJWatly handicapped, aad Some of tho «Polterg fottiid It difficult to get the fdd thfiy Wanted from Woli-establish-iriahufdcturerß. It had been vory Mettlt fof efcportets to Send very 6atgoods to New Zealand. The tt|fistHikl aystembf Japan was yot in nuHrndficy, but tho Government would JSf&Sngate any complaints; and if the ftianiifactufer waite found to bo liflowllW: ' vigorous measures i';Wtild be adopted. There wrts now a of Government inspection of «factures before they left the counin other ways Japan was onfMfeuring to Secure a reputation for i3?!uty in its manufactures. He ein■tßWfflted, that from New Zealand t'fjjP'ti required wool, choese, and huts' Wool was little Worn by the ffitoßdsq before the WaT, but since the '®'thfi; iltifllbef of woollen mills had Spaaed, and thcHl- works been ex"Woollen goods had to be t 2?P ~ . the army and ■ navy in the place; Not ofaly that, but for "test? 11 tise woollen goods had been ttkiku to !*? 1 "® comfortable ifi tho . Japanese becoming 'feu.x J* Kea " rig P®°P Ip i and the de- . woo ' betomifig greater- and a diteeiilty Wrts boag SxptolOnced ih Securing sufficient restrictions wero 1 3ij«orawn after the War, it was Hoped heSLi .i but to open jwaol lines to tho Nottr Zealand mar- , ttttififlna said he took it that i ,«6 Japanese nation intended to capge much of tho trade held by Gori before th«? war, ahd that being """" 8 ?° doubt that Aus--1 w » Zealand should be the 1 Vs»l 'i^ Cn v rom whsdh Japan would Stich wt * appW•^L^ll ntetit ' on bf the Japanese kf . so us " Zealand shoiilrf dfaw S& i , ,Tap , n , n » a,,tl thus & ttte ti rnt ]° tip hotweeh that nhytifie wishiin touch with Jnnanero j communicate with M 5f thol T, trouble * 6S ° • e " 0 ? , eh '' t,tp If trtkn tho matter up. FOmrAL "VISITS. 'ffAiiA. Of Christehiirch (Mr H «tnd the Town Clerk (Alt h'. a formal call ijpon the r ®himizu, at "Warner's Hotel (Smh?s? morning, and the Jdpaneae enoral subsequently returned mS" 1 ' tho "" • ====s " " S