EASTERN, CUSTOMERS WAITING.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 13

EASTERN, CUSTOMERS WAITING.

Mr. P. Inglis, who recently returned to Australia after sixteen years' residence In the East, held out for Australia a. prospect of Eastern trade in -which New ZZealand may be not uninterested. He said that the trade outlook, particularly through Singapore, was very good indeed, provided the tastes of Eastern buyers were considered. Australians could nevor capturo the market so long as they packed their goods for the East just as they packed them for their own people. Carelessness in packing was the greatest weakness. He was emphatic in declaring that rubber would .never agatn roach boom prices. He spoke enthusiastically of the groat wealth of the southern Siam tin fields, and expressed the opinion that there was a great future for Australian fruits and milk in the East. Poople In Australia hardly realised tho commercial' importance of Singapore. It was the Immense clearing-house for Java; British Malaya, Slam, and, to some extent, French Indo China.