Future For Japanese Trade Emphasised

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31621, 6 March 1968, Page 18

Future For Japanese Trade Emphasised

(New Zealand Press Association; WELLINGTON, March 5. The prospects for extension of trade between New Zealand and Japan were boundless, the Japanese Ambassador (Mr H. Takeuchi) said in Wellington today.

He said this was because the economies of Japan and New Zealand were complementary.

With the change in emphasis of the eating habits in Japan from starch food to

high-protein food, the import of high-protein meat and dairy products was bound to increase.

milk, 180,000 tons of cheese, and 70,000 tons of butter.

This indicated the future trend and the opportunity which would exist for New Zealand to increase its Japanese trade.

A private Japanese organisation had estimated that in 1980 the country would have to import 300,000 tons of mutton and lamb, the same amount of beef and processed

Other Ties “But trade ties, important as they are, are not the only ties which bind our two nations together,” Mr Takeuchi said. He said Japan had been gratified to note that New Zealand had been taking a increasingly greater interest in Asian affairs in recent years. Economic development was urgently needed to raise the standard of living in Asian nations.

In this connection he felt New Zealand’s emphasis on education under the Colombo

Plan assistance was a very wise and laudable course of action, Mr Takeuchi said.