TRADE WITH JAPAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14074, 31 May 1909, Page 6

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

ROOMg|OR FROZEN MEAT. ~A VIEWING COMMISSIONER. !j The commercial •possibilities of the Doj minion are at priyent being inquired into 'i by Mr. J&Jchi, Malsukura, Japanese I Trade Con¥4i«ik>iV>i*, on behalf of the Dei, pavtment oii'riUifefor Agriculture and Commerce. My. Mat&ukura is associated with the Imperii)' Commercial Museum, Tokio. This is uncßr thiFsupervision of the DeI partment of State for Agriculture and j Commerce, and has on exhibition collecj lions of gci*ss for export and import, and [selections <Wsueb products as may stimulate the pri>?re«s of the industries of the country. 9Vie Museum offers facilities and opportunities to manufacturers and exporters, both domestic and foreign, to select goods best fitted for their respective . businesses. ,» It also poffcsff.ee a bureau of feiforfnatioiS which collects information wgarding iHportant collects information igarding Bportant business matters in a pan amlyibroad, and maintains connections wn.ii domestic and foreign commercial museums; business firms, and other bus Ass institutions. L In';consequence Wfo Museum now receives a large number of reports from all quarters ana carries on a great deal of correspondence .relativC to business conditions. It also imesti&tes the methods of exportation, of thWclassincation. of goods in de-« rriand, of the change of taste, etc. Thef© /ftave become vitally important, and a great deal more so since the close of the recent Russo-Japanese war. Special efforts are directed towards these lines of work. - Interviewed by a New Zealand Times reporter, Matsukura remarked that freights frill America to Japan were very high, and Wthought, therefore, that there (as good Bport unity for trade between [pan arid Australasia, particularly in wool Id flax. The Japanese were gradually (opting V&ratern method*; and there was now: ioomfl|r Now Zealand Hour, frozen meat, canJW goods, etc. The Imperial Commercial' Museum had on. view a great variety of" goods of home and foreign manufacture, recording the progress of commerce. A Amongst those purchased are foreign pr«*icts that are immensely valuable as resiling the progress of the arts iijidi commence. Owing to their high prices (l nd to a gnuit deal of trouble in securing them, only A uch have been collected as are generally owl of the reach of individuals. Mr. Mafckura ■discovered an interesting imitati< a of Japanese goods in Christchurch. He detect A it/at once, for the design wa*j*not of Japanese origin. .He niade a jßnctical n ',- te of his: discovery, buying sai-fples whic'i he will take back with him ''o Tokio to show his countrymen. " were made in Germany," he smilingly remarked. "If any merchants in "this country require information about any ;;kind ;of Japanese goods they want," he Added;,: "ail they need do is to write to 'Imperial Commercial Museum, which willViupply full particulars, accompanied" wil a samples." ■ •• '* -'■■