WOOL FOR YUGOSLAVIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21881, 17 August 1934, Page 12

WOOL FOR YUGOSLAVIA

SAMPLES TO BE SHIPPED TRADING POSSIBILITIES DEVELOPING NEW MARKETS [tiy telegraph—OWN correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday The possibility of opening up an export market for New Zealand wool in Yugoslavia was mentioned to-day by Mr. D. Roland, of Ohristchurch, who has returned to the Dominion after a visit of two and a-half years to Central Europe. Mr. Roland has been commissioned by Yugoslavian wool buyers to purchase New Zealand wool and opossum and rabbit skins, and lie believes that there is an excellent chance of finding a good market for wool from the Dominion in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia is in itself an agricultural country and produces a considerable quantity of wool, but Mr. Roland explained that most of it was of poor quality,,and supplies of fine wool were wanted to mix with it. Last year Yugoslavia imported 12,500 bales, 60 per cent of which came from the British Empire. Mr. Roland said he believed that this quantity could be very greatly enlarged. Almost all the other nations of Central Europe either had quotas restricting the importation of wool, or else the exchange' position was such that exports to them from British.countries were unprofitable. Yugoslavia, on the contrary, had no quotas, and would pay for her imports in English money.

Mr. Roland mentioned tfiat. last year, in response to a request from Sir Thomas Wilford, tflen High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, he had attempted to arrange for shipments of New Zealand butter to Vienna. He had been given an order by a Viennese firm of wholesalers for 20001b. of butter a week, but arrangements broke down because the Viennese were not permitted to deal in foreign currencies, and could have paid for the butter only in Austrian paper money.

Mr. Roland said that samples of New Zealand wool would be shipped to Yugoslavia to-morrow. If ihe.v, proved satisfactory he had little doubt that it would be possible to build up a not inconsiderable export trade to that country.