TRADE WITH JAVA.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17401, 11 March 1922, Page 9

TRADE WITH JAVA.

POSSIBLE MARKET FOR NEW ZEALAND GOODS.

Comment has been made by Mr Byron Brown, of Derbyshire's (i\.Z.), Ltd., upon ai recent cable message as to trade between Australia and Java, and he haa expressed the opinion that the Dutch East Indies offer a very profitable market for New Zealand

goods, providing satisfactory communicar tion3 can be established.

The Dutch East Indies t comprising Java, Sumatra, Celebes Isles, Borneo, and a thousand other islands, forming giant steppingstones across the Indian Ocean between Australia and Asia, he said, are more or less thick.y populated by Malays with Europeans directing industries and commerce. There are 40,000,000 people in Java alone, but only 60,000 are whites, mostly Dutch and English. The Burns, Philp and the Dutch K.P.M. Lines run regular steamship services, two or three times a month, from Australia to Dutch East Indies, with many ports ot call, Batavia being the final port. The boats carry full cargoes of Australian flour, oat'neal, pollard, preserved milk, chees©, canned butter, and other milk products. During his visit to Java, about twonty months ago, said Mr Brown, he had founu. that those goods were of poor quality, and he had heard expressions of dissatisfaction from the Dutch and English merchants, who, having heard of the high quality of New Zealand produce, were .enquiring for it. The Dutch had been, and were now, importing dairy stock from New Zealand, but the industry was confined to the mountains, and, os yet, was only in its experimental stage. An enormous trade, in his opinion, could be done by New Zealand with the Dutcn. East Indies, and ; the Dutch and • English would welcome trial, shipments. Only one® had a Java-owned Dutch vessel traded to this country, the xtoggerveen, which brought a full cargo of Java sugar to Auckland a few years ago. The Dutch East Indies could send sugar, tea, coffee; cocoa, spices, kapoc, rattan ware, and many native home industrial products of artistic value. Java tea wa3 excellent for blending purposes. The full flavour of Java tea, however, was an acquired taste, which would have to be cultivated by New Zealand palates. At present transhipment at Sydney was the bar to economic. trading' with Java, andi direct trading was the only remedy. When in Java he told the merchants that New Zealand .dairy produce .was- bringing) such high prices that fresh markets would not be a temptation, but the' day would.come when the Dominion would be glad to open up trade. "That, day has come," Mr Brown, "and it behoves New Zealand to exploit this great market of more than fifty million consumers. Shipping is looking lor freights, and trial shipment by enterprising merchants, without seeking any Government help, would be a profitable experiment, and would lead to constant trade at good prices for the ; Dominion's at present languishing products."

TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED. . The. second liquidation dividend of the Talisman . Cohsolidated,' Ltd.,- amounting to 2s jier share, is announced to be paid' to shareholders on March 31et. The number of shares in the company is 345,000, so that the" payment, will absorb £34,500. Tho first payment of 6s per • share wu made on October 19th last, abaorbing .£86,250. ' The pending dividend will bring, the: total paid under the : liquidation ..t0,.£120,755.,'" —•s" BLACKWATEB MINES, LIMITED. The Christchurch Stock Exchange has received the following advice of crushing returns of Blackwater Mines, : Ltd., for the month of February Crushed 2869 tons, yielding 1229 fine ozs of gold; rvalue at £4 10s per fine oz, J35530; working expends, £4844; capital and development; £562; working profit, £686; net .profit, £124.. ; \ .. J,

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