TRADE WITH THE EAST

Northern Advocate, 8 June 1933, Page 8

TRADE WITH THE EAST

important market awaits, two-way exchange. d'or Press Association.—Copyright.) O[. N EDI N, Wednesday. An Indian army oflicer now living jll I),nu *'l>" expresses the opinion 'that Jin important market in the East for } Now Zealand produce is awaiting de■wb.pment. in an interview he staled t,ial ;ni >' didimities which lay in tinway would be overcome by an organised campaign on the of Dominion exporters. He could not help but feel that markets for New Zealand food supplies were not being developed to the fullest possible extent. Mutton, butter, tinned and dried milk, fish and many varieties of canoed products would find much readier sale in India if more foresight were displayed in opening up the sale for them. A big steamer came to New Zealand from Calcutta well laden every tour months and returned empty or witli a cargo of Australian coal. 'I he oflicer suggested that a smaller steamci, making faster and more frequent passages, could build up a profitable two-way exchange of goods. After stressing the need for refrigerating stores to bo built on wharves in the East before much could be done with frozen mutton, etc., the speaker instanced Calcutta, Rangoon and Singapore as quite fair potential markets.