TRADE WITH AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17179, 5 June 1919, Page 8

TRADE WITH AMERICA.

DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATED. LOS ANGELES PROPOSAL. The advantages to be derived from the promotion of shipping connections between tho port of LO3 Angeles, Southern California, and Now Zealand, wero placed before the Exporters and Importers' Committees of the' Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon by Mr. Albert Goldie, tho accredited representative of tho Los Angeles Board of Harbour Commissioners and tho Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Mr. M. M. McCallum, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, presided. Mr. Goldie explained that with the idea of introducing commercial relations between Southern California and Australia and Now Zealand. Los Anceles —rated as the tenth city in the United State;-, in point of population—had built a, modern harbour, capable of accommodating large ships, and was now seeking a fair share of the trade of the Pacific, par-1 ticularly with tho countries in the Sooth I Seas. Los Angeles was 500 miles nearer to New Zealand than was San Francisco, was a day nearer by railway to the I Eastern States, and was the best point on the coast for tourists- to land. Ho mentioned that a Los Angeles steamship company, which already had ships, supplied by the United States Shipping Board, trading to the Orient, was prepared to put steamers on the Australian and New Zealand run provided there was sufficient inducement in the way of cargoes each way. The Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand had been approached by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce with a view to having Los Angeles made a port of call for their cargo steamers trading to San Francisco, but so far nothing was known of the company's intentions in this respect. Mr. Goldio explained that Los Angeles was rapidly becoming a. manufacturing ai'd distributing centre, the commodities which could be shipped to advantage being glass, paper, rase oil, canned fish and fruit, motortrucks, automobile accessories, etc., whilethere wa« a good opening for New Zealand products, such as tallow, bides, flax, rabbit skins, kauri gum. and wool, when available. There was. ho said, little do. mand for butter and cheese on the Pacific Coast,' but a market could no doubt be found in Mexico for these product?, Los Angeles being the most convenient distributing centre,

Mr. Ooldie answered a number of onestions bearing on th« project, and the chairman promised to lay the matter before, the council of the chamber at an earlv dato for consideration.