25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 43, 14 November 1939, Page 6

25 YEARS AGO

Probable Trade Expansion (From “Tlie Dominion,” Nov. 17, 1914.) At the instance of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce, inquiries have been made through the British Consular Service about the prospects of trade with Central and South America, which the opening of the Panama Canal has made possible. Tlie department states that the Canal Zone requires regularly a number ot lines which New Zealand could supply it freights and prices were right. In a letter to the department, His Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires, Panama, . states that there is a constant demand for meat and dairy produce; and that the Supply Department of tlie Panama _ Canal Administration considers that if the contemplated steamship service is established competitive prices should enable New Zealand and Australian exporters to secure some or all of its orders for meat and dairy produce. The Supply Department is willing to make annual contracts.

Tlie following extract from a letter from a New Zealander now domiciled in Sydney to a friend in Wellington is interesting: “New Zealand lias lately attracted a lot of attention here. Your getting m first with the offer ot assistance to Britain, then the expedition with which you got your men away to Samoa, and their taking possession of German Samoa have helped to keep you in tlie limelight. I am continually being asked about Massey. He has somehow appealed to the imagination of Australians. and if lie ever visits the Commonwealth he will get a great reception.”