RECIPROCAL TRADE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 8

RECIPROCAL TRADE

3 P-M. EDITION

AUSTRALIA AND CANADA. INFORMAL CONFERENCE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright j. (Australian Press Association.) Received April 11. 11.35 a.m. VANCOUVER, April 10. Canadians are eager to buy Australian goods of quality and give them preference as a matter of Empire sentiment. Vancouver importers and merchants are ready and willing to go as far as they can in encouraging the market for Australian goods, but, and the “but” was made very plain to Australian manufacturers, and producers, shippers must realise, that it is up to themselves to sell their goods on the Canadian market. They must learn its needs and requirements as to quality and package and Canadian methods of trade. Above all, they must at least assist in the advertising here of their own wares. " All this was stated on- the Canadian side of an informal conference between tho Australian delegates to the Educational Conference and leading members of the Vancouver Board of Trade. On their side the Australians held that the necessity for a better acquaintance with the Canadian market was already being recognised. They instanced the appointment of an Australian Trade Commissioner, but they were reminded that “,the Commissioner cannot possibly do the work that should be done by direct contact by the firms seeking the market here. In any day in any week there are forty American travellers in Vancouver industriously showing goods and taking orders, and no Trade Commissioner could get in five years the information that the representatives of the American houses have at their finger tips,” said Mr H. Jt. Macmillan. Mr D. H. Ross, the Canadian Trade Commissioner in Australia, suggested that the British Columbia and other Canadian liquor control boards mi.ght well lessen their profit on Australian wines. This might encourage the Australian authorities to give further preference to Canadian timber.