TRADE WITH JAPAN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20333, 4 September 1931, Page 15

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

r FULL EXPLOITATION URGED. LETTER PROM MR CALDER MACKAY. A fuller exploitation of Japanese markets by New Zealand traders was urged by Mr Calder Mackay, general manager of Calder Macltay Co., Ltd., I in a letter received last evening by the Council of tho Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. "Recognising the fact that to-day wo are almost entirely dependent on i the. demands of one market for our I primary products, and knowing bow interested the Chamber is in exploiting new markets, I have toon wondering if you have mode a real study of tho possibilities presented by Japan,", wrote Mr Mackpy. Natural Disadvantages. ■. "You possibly are aware that the soil almost everywhere in Japan is ol very poor quality, and only a small proportion Of the- country is cultivable owing to its- mountainous nature. So little land can be spared for grazing that in all Japan there are only a little more than one million sheep, cattle, and goats, against New Zealand's thirty-two and a half million sheep and cattle. "Japan surely presents a great held for our butter, dried milk, and mut•ton. Naturally, through the scarcity in the past, Japanese people have not been educated to drink milk and to eat butter and mutton? so that wisely planned propaganda, would have to go hand in hand with an aggressive sales policy if this' great market is to be tapped for our benefit. Growing Trade Predicted. "America and Canada, owing to high cost of production and local demand, cannot compet.e with us. For some time, however, quantities of New Zealand butter have been shipped to Vancouver and transhipped by the Canadians to be sold in the Bast. Why should wo not get control of this growing market ourselves? As Japan becomes more and more industrialised she will be increasingly. compelled to look to the outside world for her food supplies, and this means rapidly growing trade for whatever countries like New Zealand care t'o break promptly and intelligently into this great market." Reduced Expenditure. The following postscript was added to the letter;— „ x "While discussing Japan it is interesting to note that tho Japanese Parliament adopted their new Budget on April Ist. The present Party in power has steadily reduced the expenditure over tho past four years from over £181,000,00Q to the present budget for the coming year of £144,000,000, or about £2 8s a head of population as against £l7 a head in New Zealand, with ours steadily rising." The letter was referred to the Ex- | porters' Committoe. PRICE-eUTTING. TOBACCONISTS WANT RELIEF. LETTER TO CHAMBER OF j COMMERCE. | —i A request' that the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce should combine with Chambers of Commerce throughout the I Dominion to secure some form of legisj lation which would give tobacconists and other traders relief from illegitimate price-cutting, was received by "the Council last evening from the Christchurch Hairdressers' and Tobacconists' Association. The Association enclosed a copy of a letter sent to the Dunedin Chamber o£ Commerce protesting against tho Eraetieo of some stores usmg the stock. i-trade of the legitimate tobacconist not for profit, but to decoy customers. Commercial Trusts Act. The Christchurch Association, it was pointed out in common with kindred Associations throughout the Dominion, had been trying for some time to have cigarettes and tobacco >deleted from the Commercial Trusts Act, thereby enabling the distributors and manufacturers to make a fixed retail price, The'president (Mr H. S. E.Turner) suggested that the question should ber referred to tho Retailers' Committee. Mr T. N, Gibbs asked if it was wise for the Chamber to hold up any economic development. Prices were bound to come down as cheaper methods of handling good* were found. Mr A. 13. Kineaid said that some stores, having many .other lines, sold tebaeco and cigarettes at almost cost price, while the tobacconist, for whom these goods were his sole livelihood, had to make some small profit. The letter was referred to the Retailers' and Exporters' Committee. MINING. MAHAKIPAWA GOLDFIELDS, LTD. The secretary to the Mahakipawa Gold fields, Ltd'., advises that word has been received from the mine manager to the effect that the W-ash-up for the month produced 1650 a, of melted gold. KING SOLOMON MINE. The following is the mine manager's roport of the work done at the mine for the two weeks ended August 28th, 1931: Main south drive: This drive was extended 94 feet for the above period making a total of 204 feet completed from the branch drive. During the past week gold-bearing wash was struck in this drive. The wash ap. peared in tho floor of the drive carryfnsr gold. In producing the drive, the wash was displaced by the drift and brown pug, and the bottom started to rise steeply. The bottom is the white sand similai to that in other sections of the which underlays the gold, bearing washl It is obvious that this white sand will continue to rise at its present grade to the bore hole, toward which we are driving, and possibly the wash will again make at that point. The bore is 66 feet south of the work-

ihg face. Tlio face is breasted with face boards owing to the water which is coining through causing the sand to run. Driving west from No. 3 was completed for 9 feet. No work was done in thia place during tho past week, th® men being employed on other work. No. 4 drive was extended 25 feet in a north-east direction on wash. Blocking out west of No, 5 was done, tho wash being heavy and tight. The wash, dirt is now being put through the new boxca which are work, ing satisfactorily. The Winding Creek race and pipe lino are now in good order. , Both the electrical and pteani pumping column will now discharge into 11.ineh pipes which are laid through the adit and discharge down the gully. The approach of the adit has been made sale, and there is now no danger of flooding the mine through this entrance.' The jiew 3-inch pump column from the electric pump wan carried up the shaft and turned into tho adit during tho week. The new electric cable been inutalled, The pttmp with the 3-inch discharge column can now deal with a much greater quantity of water than is in the mine. WEST COAST PROJECTS. Interest in gqld mining is on the increase, says a \Vest Coast paper. The Stock Exchanges indicate by their activities that investors are keen, and if the concerns now approaching production prove payable, a boom is not unlikely. A Sydney syndicate has bought the Mount David Sluicing Company's claim in the Inangahua district. The New Big River mine is in process of revival. At Nelson Cretk, the Brian Boru Company, a new venture, is to drecige ou an area that is expected to turn out well.- Tho Wheel ot' Fortune claim (at Stafford is to be worked by a new company. There is also a likelihood of new sluicing operations in ,:the locality be. tween Kumara and Stafford.'