TRADE WITH ARGENTINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17428, 25 March 1920, Page 5

TRADE WITH ARGENTINE.

~, DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE.

GOOD- DEMAND FOR FRUIT. THE SHIPPING DIFFICULTY. A ■i -. - ■ '■■ ■■■ r[SI MXEQEATH —OWN COBKKSPONDENT.I CHRISTCHTJECH. Wednesday.' A New , Zealander, who for the past fourteen years has beert resident in' the Argentine, Mr. T. E. B. Poole, is at present visiting the Dominion for the first time since Bis departure. He is interested in the export of New Zealand fruit to the Argentine, and in the course of an interview said that a iarge business could be developed in this direction, providing the shipping facilities were available. Tha Argentine could take at least 200,000 cases every ' season, and a good . market could also be found in the other. South American States. At' present, however, the homeward bound steamers took the Panama Canal route, and he was now endeavouring to arrange with the shipping people to divert some of the steamers during the New Zealand fruit season to the Monte Video route. * ■

The immediate difficulty, he added, was the cost of coaling in South America, but he hoped that would be met. In addition to fruit there was a splendid market in Sotath America for New Zealand binder twine, flax fibre, Cheddar cheese, Kaiapoi and Mosgiel rugs, and jams. Here the shipping trouble again stood in, the way. He v proposed to see the Minister for Agriculture in order to ascertain what developments were possible.