TRADE WITH N.Z. Australian Urges Increase

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28529, 7 March 1958, Page 26

TRADE WITH N.Z. Australian Urges Increase

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 6. After five weeks in New Zealand, Mr R. H. Harrison, a leading New South Wales manufacturer, is going home an enthusiastic advocate of increased trade between Australia and New Zealand. “It is only since I have been over here that I’ve realised how little Australian business executives reajly know about New Zealand,” he said in Wellington “They don’t realise the size and importance of the New Zealand market. This could be New Zealand’s own fault. New Zealand does slip in telling us about herself. We should exchange more trade delegations.” In particular Mr Harrison considers that the future is very bright for exports of dairy produce to Australia. With no more man on the land than New Zealand, and a population growing at the rate of 1,000.000 a year, Australia could never hope to produce enough dairy produce to feed her population, he said. “At present it is very difficult to buy New" Zealand dairy produce in Australia,” he said. “You can’t buy New Zealand cheese in the suburban shops. I thought we were getting a reasonable share of New Zealand’s exports, but we’re not.”