TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13370, 27 December 1906, Page 3

TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA.

It would-"appear; ffrom the remarks made to a Wellington. Post reporter by the Hon. W. Kidston, ; Premier of Queensland, who is on a short holiday visit to the colony, that Sir J. Ward has scored off the Federal Government in the matter of the reciprocal treaty between South Africa and New Zealand. At all events, Mr. Kidston is afraid that Mr. Deakin and his colleagues have been caught napping, and that South Australia and New South Wales should have got the trade that New Zealand is now likely to obtain. There has been, according to Mr. Kidston, a good deal of trade between Australia and South Africa since the termination of the war. He explains that the Australian States have no authority to interfere in fiscal matters.

It is stated that there is every prospect of the development of a- very large and important trade between the two countries. It is possible that before the New Year is well advanced, one influential Anglo-Afri-can shipping company will make a big bid for the trade by running a regular service to the colony, while there is some talk of another company entering the field with steamers of adequate cargo-carrying capacity. •;.-.>..... . . ~.