A VISIT TO THE EAST.

Evening Star, Issue 14633, 1 August 1911, Page 7

A VISIT TO THE EAST.

fSrEcun to the Star.] AUCKLAND. August 1. Numerous visits to the East, coupled with aii ohf.e.rvant mind, have placed Colon*! it. W. S. Patterson in the position of being able to speak with interest on j matters connected with the .Asiatic. Colonel I I’attcroon returned to Ai-ekland yesterday I afternoon from an extended visit aliroad. j during v.hicii ho travelled extensively and sow San Francisco, Seal tic, Victoria \ (U. 0.). Vancouver. Shanghai. Kintau (Koith- ! ern China). Dalny, Lbyang, Mukden, | Seoul. Fusan, Yokohama, and Hongkong, j Speaking to a Press .representative, Mr | Patterson spoke in enthusiastic- terms of j the awakening of the Eastern countries - . , Their inemuung no-ads and largo increase >. of imports made it evident that New Zealand would be making a forward move ■ by tjie establishment of a High Cotnmis-j .doners office in the East. New South Wales and A’ictniia, have recognised the - possibilities of trade relations, and have \ taken the initiative by sending Curiums- ; sioneis to Kobe and Shanghai respectively. ) and three men look after the whole, of ; China and Japan and as far south as the Straits Setticmcnls. Japan ami China | .show an increased demand,'’ said. Mr I’at- i lereon, -- for butter, meat, and kindled produces: while Japan lias .-tailed to impoit | wool to a great extent. Japan is not a j meat-producing country, although Mr Pat' I tfwm saw some very line <-;itLl<‘ roar Kobe, nod as the people becccmc moit • amenable to Occidental ways the demand ! for moat will go up in leap* and bounds. Australia, has got into tho open door, and I is exporting fair quantities to ths Land oi i the Ivisiug Sun. Mr Patterson considers I that an exaggerated idea prevails as to the j prospective danger from, extensive colonisa. tion of Australia’s Northern Temtoiy by I the little brown man. At life present lime ■ the Jati is fully occupied keeping a watchful eye on the movements of Kussia in ' secure a I’acitic jK>r(. for the great fertile Tnnts.baika! region and ;be strides; she i- 1 makinc in jwpulating Southern Manchuria. I Wh ateiev aims Japan may have in u-gaid to colonisation, her iinperat ivo- policy is lo concentrate popuiaiion in Manchuria and : Korea, rather than to scatter, bccau.se she. is- surrounded by Russia. Chinn, and America, with millions of people re,-j actively, and the pioportiou of population mu-t he - maintained. Witii t»:e extension o| Ihr ' treaty .Australia should have at least ten ; years respite deal