NEW ZEALAND TRADE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 250, 18 July 1933, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND TRADE

Newcastle-on-Tyne Effort APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE i • ' The work of pushing the,sale of New Zealand produce in Newcastle-in-Tyne i is fully set out in the issue of the Newcastle “Chronicle” of May 8, in which is published a very good picture of Wellington city and harbour. The accompanying article reads, as follows:— “New Zealand is almost. entirely a produce-exporting country. The farmers in the Dominion are suffering very severely from low prices, and they are bravely endeavouring, by extending their markets, to make ends meet. Brit- ) ish scientists have declared New Zealand produce to be of the highest quality. “Newcastle housewives will greatly help.us if they will now substitute, when they can. New Zealand produce for that from foreign countries. New Zealand undoubtedly has been one of Tyneside’s best oversea customers. In addition to tlie floating idock for the Wellington Harbour Board (constructed by Armstrong's), and the heavy electrical equipment for her Arapuni hydro-electrical head works (manufactured by the Armstrong, Whitworth Company and Messrs. -Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), a large number of the steamers in the New Zealand fleet have been built here.“One of the latest constructed was the New Zealand Government vessel Matai, built by Hawthorne, Leslie and Co., and previous to that were two 15.000-ton cargo vessels, fitted with. Diesel engines, which were built by Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson for the New Zealand trade. All- the ships in the vast carrying and passenger trade with New Zealand, on which may millions have been spent, have been built exclusively in Britain, and Newcastle has bad its fair share from the earliest days. “In addition, the Dominion has come to Newcastle for its chief supplies of rails, locomotives, boilers, steel for its roads, railways, and bridges, wire ropes, white lead, bitumastic paint, and other products. “Some may say that New Zealand has only a small population, and her trade cannot be very great. This is not so; the Dominion’s people have a very high purchasing power, and even though the total value of her purchases from Britain last year declined by 10 millions sterling on her 1929 figures (owing to the prevailing loss in purchasing power due to low produce prices) she bought more from Britain than any European country except Germany, France, and Holland, more, also, than China or Japan, and as much as Argentina—all countries with many times her population.” _________