NEW ZEALAND'S CHANCES IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12269, 13 May 1903, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND'S CHANCES IN AUSTRALIA.

to thp: editor. Sir, —Some time ago we New .Zealanders in Australia, read of the Now Zealand Parliament's passing a sum of money for the appointment of tourist or commercial agents abroad. We were in strong hopes of seeing a New Zealand agency opened in Sydney or Melbourne, with the dual object of opening up new lines of trade with Australia and diverting the stream of foreign tourists that como _ here towards Maorilaud and her beauties. We are still waiting anxiously for that agency. Perhaps arrangements will be facilitated by Sir Joseph Ward's recent visit to us. I am afraid that New Zealand underestimates her chances of trade with the Commonwealth. Her proximity gives New Zealand a considerable advantage over other outsiders who eater for Australian trade. ,

There is an immediate market here for grain, grass, clover and vegetable seeds, flour, oatmeal, potatoes, cheese, butter, potted meats, fresh, smoked and tinned fish, oysters, bacon, eggs, fowls, onions, condensed milk, beer, lager, woollen goods and hosiery of all kinds, dairy cattle, chilled 1 game, hops, pickles _ and condiments, lard, glue, oleomargarine, sulphur, oxide of iron or hematite paint, shale oils, crude asbestos, flax ropes and twine, pumice stone and pumice soaps, greenstone, kauri gum, fungus, hides, pelts, pig and cow hair, whalebone, paper, ammunition, fancy woods, wooden toys such as are made largely in Wellington, and numbers of other lines that New Zealand produces. lam not theorising. Wo are selling numbers of these lines every week to Australian buyers from European, American and Asiatic vendors at prices I know New Zealanders could easily sell here at. The steamers that "took cargoes of these lines to Australia could take loads of tourists back to New Zealand if a Government agency were properly worked here. This agency could be self-supporting if the New Zealand Government charged a selling commission to vendors. .

I desire the favour of appealing through your columns to the New Zealand raublic to ask that they urge the Government"to expedite the establishment of an agency.—l am etc -> _ „ „ G. J. Bruce, Hon, Sec. New Zealand Committee. Sydney, May 5, 1903.