FUTURE OF PACIFIC OCEAN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19734, 26 September 1929, Page 10

FUTURE OF PACIFIC OCEAN.

CENTRE OF WORLD COMMERCE. (UITITBD FHSBS ASSOCIATIOK— BT XLSCTBIC TZLSCHUPH—COPTBtOHT.) OTTAWA, September 24. Interviewed at Vancouver to-day Captain Robert Dollar, Pacific Coast shipping magnate and owner of the Dolalr Steamship Lines, declared that in a few years the centre of the world's commerce would ;be in the Pacific. Western Canada must start now and lay the foundation. She should start manufacturing raw materials and get them across the ocean, he said. Even to-day the Pacific Ocean was increasing in commerce so fast that it was hard to keep track of it all. He advocated cheap cable communication between all sides of the Pacific by business interests.—Australian Press Association.

LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

MANUFACTURERS* ASSOCIATION.

The executive of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association met last evening, Mr H. Bradley presiding. Messrs C. H. Burson, P. Spencer, and A. M. Hollander were appointed a sub-com-mittee to enquire into the prospects of placing returned soldiers who are unemployed.

It was decided to write to the N.Z. Federation and ask why the decision of the conference in reference to a New Zealand trade mark had not been adhered to.

Mr Hutchinson reported in regard to school certificates for exhibition awards, that a prize was offered to the commercial art businesses, art schools, etc., for a design, and the one selected was that submitted by Messrs Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie, Ltd. The design typified the manufacturing and farming industries of the Dominion. It was decided to hold a dinner to celebrate the jubilee, and Messrs A. M. West, E. Archbold, and C. H. Burson were appointed a sub-committee to make the arrangements. It was agreed to ask Mr J. A. Frostick to complete a history of the Association. Mr Marriner also said that at present the New Zealand manufacturers of electrical goods are under a disadvantage if they wish to market an electrical article manufactured by themselves. All electrical appliances manufactured in the Dominion have to be passed by the Public Works Department before they can be put on the market, but this does not apply to the imported article. No restrictions are placed upon their manufacture. It was resolved to draw the attention of the Department of Industries and Commerce to the matter. FRUIT EXPORT SEASON.

Exports of apples and pears from Australia and New Zealand have been completed. Tha quantity of fruit sent to Great Britain was much below that of last year. T'>tal arrivals of apples from Australia and New Zealand amounted to only 1,443.000 boxes, compared with more than 3,950,000 boxes last year, and 1,716,000 boxes in 1927. Australia supplied 801,000 boxes of apples, compared with 3,084,000 in 1928. Shipments of pears from Australia amounted to 93,000 boxes, and 45.000 boxes were ex«ported from New Zealand to Great Britain.