Northern Advocate Daily WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE Northern Mail Daily. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914. AN OPPORTUNE TIME.

Northern Advocate, 27 November 1914, Page 4

Northern Advocate Daily WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE Northern Mail Daily.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914. AN OPPORTUNE TIME.

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The swift changes and chances of the times have operated considerably in favour of New Zealand, leaving us free of the actual throes of conflict .and bringing a good opportunity to share in the commercial cargo which Germany litis jettisoned. As the United States Consul-General at Auckland (Mr J. I. Brittain) stated in writing to the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: "The present is an opportune time for American manufacturers and exporters to make a determined effort to obtain trade in New Zealand. The general impression here is that the United States has excellent prospects for export trade in Australasia .... The people of the Auckland province are very friendly towards Americans, and are enterprising, and wide awake to commercial opportunities- With an effort by American salesmen, this country's purchases of American goods would increase by at least fifty per cent." As showing how well these statemlents are warranted 'and have hit the mark, the latest "News Let■ter' of the Oceanic Steamship Company to hand says that American exporters appear to have awakened to the fact that never before have they had such an opportunity to do business with Australasia as at the present. With the temporary extinction of the German trade with Australasia, with the utmost friendliness of feeling pervading between - the United States and Great Britain and dependencies, with a brisk demand for manufactured goods coming from Australia and New Zealand, the limit on the trade at this time is set only by the capacity of the steamers now engaged in the Australasian trade. What is true of the freight business is equally true of the passenger travel. It nuay not be generally realised, but the fact is that the exports to New Zealand with its 1.000,000 people are greater today than were the exports to Australia five years ago. Since 1910 exports to Australia have increased over six-fold. Exports to New Zealand have increased between two and three-fold. It was only, last March that the imports from New Zealand had grown sufficiently to cause the United States Customs authorities to order that these be kept separately froml the imports from Australia, The statistics, of San Francisco's trade with Australasia, import and export, for the first ninq, months of the year as compared with the corresponding periods in the previous foar years, tell a remarkable story of commercial development, and testify to the advantage-of regular and frequent communication between Australasia and America. They show an increase in value of exports to Australia as .between 1910 and 1914 of about £050,000, and to New Zealand of about £100.000, while the imports from Australasia were approximately £350,000. Significant as these figures are, the chances arising from present circumstances, if properly iseized, give prospects of results many times multiplied, and of spurring on the commerce of this country to lengths hitherto unim'agined and incalculable-