CONFECTIONERY TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 12

CONFECTIONERY TRADE

Considerable interest attaches to the Confectionery Section Report attached to the annual report of the British (U.K.) Manufacturers' Association of New Zealand issued to-day. "The trade in this section for the past year (we are told) cannot be said to have been in a satisfactory state from the point of view of the British manufacturer. As anticipated in the last report, the change of tariff ot 1927 has had an adverse effect upon the volume of business done by British manufacturers in New Zealand. . . Canada alone, of the main suppliers of confectionery, has recovered the volume of business transacted prior to the tariff change, and, indeed, slightly improved its figures, lhe United Kingdom's figures show a further falling-off since 1928, which is accounted for largely by the fact that the New Zealand manufacturers are fast improving their products by means of improved machinery and more experienced <york people. With regard to Australia, the big fall in volume of exports to New Zealand is accounted for by the transfer of two large factories (which formerly supplied goods to the New Zealand market from Australia) to local factories established within the Dominion."

A table shows that the total value of all confectionery imported from the United Kingdom during the first nine months of this year was £31,506, as against £63,472 for the corresponding period of 1927; while the corresponding figures tor Canada were £15,620 and £12,508, and those for Australia £30 609 and £67 229 respectively.