THE TRADE WITH CANADA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14587, 25 January 1911, Page 8

THE TRADE WITH CANADA.

MARKET FOR FROZEN MUTTON.

The steamer Karamea, which is under charter ■to the New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived from Montreal yesterday morning. Tho vessel is running under the arrangement between the New Zealand Shipping Company and the . Canadian Government, which gives a subsidised service between Eastern Canada and New Zealand and Australia. The Karamea is the fourth vessel to arrive at Auckland under the above arrangement with cargo from Canada. One of tho ship's officers, speaking on the subject yesterday, said there was . not the slightest doubt that a great trado will eventually spring up between tho two countries. The Canadians are hoping in the near future to import frozen mutton from the Dominion, as the high prices' imposed by the American meat rings are causing distress to all classes of the community. The Karamea is the last vessel to leave Montreal . this season, as owing to the severity of tho Canadian winter the waters of the St. .Lawrence are not navigable during that period. The vessels to follow the Karamea are the. Kumara, Whakatane, Invertay and Wakanui, which will 'leave St. .John, New Brunswick, on tho Nova Scotian coast, during the Canadian winter. The Kumara left St. John on December 20, and is due here about the end of February, while the Whakatane left that port on 'January 21, and s due here about the end of March.