OUT FOR TRADE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12078, 18 October 1933, Page 2

OUT FOR TRADE

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RIVAL TO N.Z. IN BUTTER AND CHEESE. EYE ON EASTERN MARKETS. (Press Association! WELLINGTON, Oct. ]7. The opinion that in Australia, Now Zealand is going to have a serious rival in hotter and cheese production was expressed hy Mr. W. Crawford Burt, formerly managing director o Messrs. A. and T. Burt, Ltd., on his return hy the Marama today after 12 months’ residence in New South Wales.

Mr. Burt said the output of hotter for export was increasing hy leaps and bounds, and now Australians we r e turning their attention to cheese. New Zealand would have to watch her step, for Australia, was a prospective producer in a very large way in . a market already over-supplied. Mr. Burt said the feeling throughout Australia at present was one o* buoyant optimism. There was no doubt in anybody’s mind but that Australia had turned the corner. “At the same time, Australia is showing an alert commercial mind in seeking markets for her goods other than in England,” he continued. “Figures showing the export to the Orient butter, flour, and jams are really surprising. She has live agents in Java, Singapore, India, China and Japan, and they are straining every nerve to create trading relations wit n those countries.

“It is all nonsense to say that prospects for trade do not exist owing to the poverty of the coolies. All the people of Java, China, and Japan are not coolies, any more than all the people of England me farm labourers. There is limitless wealth ■in these countries, and if Australia can produce the goods, they, want there is an open avenue for trade. This market New Zealand has entirely neglected up to the present. f still think there is a chance for New Zealand’s meat, butter, and cheese in the East, hut the trade will need fostering hy accredited agents who know both countries. Wo have by n° means shown an alert mind in investigating the possibilities of trade with the East.”