TRADE WITH JAPAN

Evening Star, Issue 21881, 19 November 1934, Page 7

TRADE WITH JAPAN

OPENING FOR DOMINION PRODUCTS DEMAND FOR BUTTER AND MEAT [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 17. The opinion that there was an opening for New Zealand products in Japan was expressed by Mr L. A. Jacobson, a local business man, who returned this week alter an extended tour of America, Canada, and the East. He said it had been impressed on him that Japan was anxious to do more trade with Australia and New’ Zealand to compensate for what Japan tool; from those countries. The present ■-'unfavourable balance, in Japan’s eyes, was more against Australia than New Zealand. Japan had been importing Australian butter, but the merchants had been unfortunate in their shipments. One merchant had informed him that the condition of the butter on arrival was such that the order could not be repeated, and as a consequence butter was now being obtained front Canada. The Japanese were eating more meat and butter, and would continue to do so. Business was to be done in those lines, and Australia was losing no time in becoming established in the Japanese market. Recently restaurants on English lines were opened in Japan, and Japanese bad visited America with the idea ot securing all the information possible regarding the conduct of restaurants and the preparation of food. The Japanese were patronising them well. Japan produced butter in the ■northern provinces, but it was white and insipid. Her meat, which was hand-fed, was used only in high-class restaurants, and poultry was far cheaper than meat. Mr Jacobson said that there was no indication of a slump in Japan and no sign of unemployment. In the iron and steel industries the works were so busy filling domestic requirements that orders were anything up to six months behind.