NEW ZEALAND AND CANADA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12482, 28 January 1904, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND AND CANADA.

PROSPECTS OP TRADE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Wellington, Wednesday. Mr. Schryver, representative of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, is now in Wellington, and tells me that he intends to leave Auckland on February 24, for Canada, in order to study the altered conditions which have arisen there in regard to trade with New Zealand, as the outcome of the amended tariff which recently became law in this colony. This tariff will, of course, be of material assistance to Canadian manufacturers, and Mr. Schryver states that there is a big opening for trade between that country and New Zealand. An excellent market, ho says, should be found in Canada for New Zealand wool, pelts, tallow, potatoes, onions, and fruit. He states that there is no reason to fear that the prices of Canadian goods will bo increased to New Zealand buyers as the result o\ tho tariff. In fact, he says, the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, which is a very powerful organisation, would strenuously discourage anything of the kind, and in any case the competition amongst) manufacturers themselves would operate against any such move. Prices, he states, are in some lints actually lower than before the tariff was passed. Mr. Schryver, who is a resident director in New Zealand for the Canadian Export Company, will probably be absent from the colony for three months.