TRADE WITH JAVA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20713, 5 November 1930, Page 13

TRADE WITH JAVA.

DOMINION'S PROSPECTS. RETIRED BANKER'S VIEWS. The absence of a direct steamer service is robbing New Zealand of a considerable market, for her primary products in Java, according to Mr. A. Meyboom, a retired bank manager of Batavia, who arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Marama on a holiday visit. "At present any New Zealand goods sent to Java have to be transhipped at Sydney," he said, "failing the establishment of a direct steamer service, if vou could adjust the transhipment rates so that freights would not be so lieaw. you would be able to compete with Australia, which at present exports fairlv considerable quantities of butter, flour, frozen meat and fresh fruit to the Dutch East Indies." Mr. Meyboom has resided in Java for 34 years. He mentioned that a regular weekly air service between Batavia. and Amsterdam had recently been inaugurated, aeroplanes carrying mails making the. trip in nine days. The pilot who inaugurated the regular service was Mr. A. \ an Dvk, who held the distinction of having flown the Atlantic with Kingsford Smith. Mr. Meyboom. who i& accompanied by his wife and two daughters, intends spending about a month in New Zealand, visiting the various tourist resorts.