AUSTRALIAN GOODS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28629, 4 July 1958, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN GOODS

Chinese Interest In Buying (Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 3. China wants to buy wool, wheat and steel from Australia, the assistant manager of the Commonwealth Trading Bank’s foreign division, Mr R. N. Harrison, said in Sydney on his return from overseas.

Accompanied by another bank official, Mr Kenneth Snelling, he has been on a 10-week trade assignment in Asian countries. Places they visited included Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Borneo, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Communist China. Australian Trade with Communist China should expand gradually, Mr Harrison said. He said he had had talks with Benior Government trade officials and officials of the China National Export and Import Corporation in Peking. China was anxious to sell to Australia silks, cotton textiles, bristles, wood oil, and tea. Mr Harrison said China was interested not only in Australian wool, but in Australian steel and wheat Australia in the last 10 months exported goods worth £8,500.000 to China, he added. Australia in the same period imported from China goods worth £2,500.000.

Mr F. Jones To Visit Woomera

(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, July 3. The New Zealand High Commissioner in Australia (Mr F Jones) will visit Woomera on July 14 The New Zealand office in Canberra said tonight that arrangements had been completed today for Mr Jones to go to Woomera as part of his first official visit to South Australia.

Poles Leave Tourist Ship.— Twenty-one Polish tourists left the holiday ship Mazowsze while she was at Stockholm last weekend and 17 have applied to the Swedish police for political asylum. The Mazowsze has visited Stockholm four times this year, and each time there have been defections. The total has reached 39.—Stockholm, July 2.