Manawatu Evening Standard. Circulation, 3,500 Copies Daily TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1908. TRADE WITH CANADA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8536, 17 March 1908, Page 4

Manawatu Evening Standard. Circulation, 3,500 Copies Daily TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1908. TRADE WITH CANADA.

Coincident with the arrival in New Zealand of Mr Larke, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, a report by Mr Graham Gow on trade prospects in Canada has been published. He sees great possibilities of commercial intercourse between the Old and New Dominions, and in this "respect is in agreement with Mr Larke. Especially in West Canada are there openings for expansion, while he has little doubt that if our merchants could get in touch with Vancouver buyers for tho Yukon district the steamers which leave periodically for the Yukon territory could carry cargoes of our canned meats, jams and fruits. An unquestionably good market exists for New Zealand mutton in tho West of Canada, but before the trade can bo properly established a direct service of refrigerator steamers from New Zealand to Vancouver would be necessary. The long, cold winter makes sheep raising in Canada impossible, and importers there state that the superior reputation of New Zealand over Australian mutton would earn for it a great market in Canada. As far east as Winnipeg, which will be the Chicago of Canada, there is a good opening for New Zealand canned goods and frozen mutton, if they can meet competition, a condition which \yill be conduced to by the great reduction in overland freights which is expected to follow the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Coast to Coast Railway. The field in Western Canada for manufactured goods from ( New Zealand is practically limitless, and when the many factories which are now building in the West are completed, there will be an opening for a largo quantity of our raw material. In Toronto, Mr Gow found many enquiries for New Zealand wools, but heavy freights on the Cana-dian-Pacific railway to Toronto operate against large purchasers. The completion of the Grand Trunk Line should reduce freights. At present, owing to the competition of imported articles, one hundred woollen mills are closed clown. On tho whole it would therefore appear that the Canadian markets are worth exploiting. It might be that the discovery of new outlets for our products will relieve us of tho clanger of such depressions as have from time to time overtaken

the wool, hemp, and butter markets. Money spent to bring about that object would not be grudged by the people, and Government should therefore, without delay, take the Canadian markets ? into consideration.