TRADE WITH WEST INDIES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25082, 14 January 1947, Page 3

TRADE WITH WEST INDIES

MARKET FOR EXPORTS FROM N.Z. ** The Press ” Special Service AUCKLAND. January 13. Good prospects existed in New Zealand for trsde with the British West Indies. said Mr Louis J. Williams, managing director of the L. J. Williams Marketing Company, Ltd., Port-o‘f-Spain, Trinidad, who arrived at Auckland from San Francisco on S»turday by air. Mr Williams is on hi» way to Australia, where his company has recently placed a large volume of business. He will later spend several days in New Zealand interviewing manufacturers. Mr Williams, whose firm deals in a wide range of imports, including foodstuffs, clothing, and machinery, said that there was a great untouched market in the West Indies and British Guiana for Australian and New Zealand products. Annual imports in those British possessions amounted to more than £35,000.000, and almost all foodstuffs consumed in Trinidad wero imported. Large quantities of condensed milk and other products had been ordered from Australia, said Mr Williams, and there was no reason why New Zealand as well as Australian, business in Trinidad should not be permanent and substantial. He stated that his company was particularly interested in obtaining dairy products and canned fish from New Zealand.