“N.Z. Losing Japanese Market To Australia”

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 10

“N.Z. Losing Japanese Market To Australia”

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June, 7. New Zealand would soon find a trade war with Australia on its hands in Japan, Mr P. N. Ternm, an editor of the “Asahi Evening News,” a newspaper with a circulation of more than four million, said in Auckland today. He said Australia, competing for the same markets in Japan as New Zealand, was far more active and spending much more money.

Mr Temm. an Aucklander who was granted a Japanese Government scholarship four years ago to study at Tokyo University, is married to a Jaoanese girl and is editing the supplements section of the “Asahi Evening News" and its English language edition.

He is in New Zealand to collect material for the paper's third annual New Zealand supplement. The Osaki trade fair this year was a showcase for the world's manufacturers and primary producers to exhibit their products to Japan and the world. Mr Temm said. Australia had a magnificent pavilion there. Photographs of it appeared in all the newspapers and magazines.

"Where was New Zealand?” Mr Temm asked. “There wasn’t even a pat of New Zealand butter in the place. “Australia is aware that the market is there. New Zealand is aware of it only in a woolly sort of way. “We have got .to start looking after ourselves. If we don’t watch our step, we ire going to lose a lot of markets to Australia.” While he is in New' Zealand Mr Temm will talk to officers of the Department of Industries and Commerce, the Tourist and Publicity Department, the Minister of Overseas Trade (Mr Marshall) and, possibly, the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake).