NEW ZEALAND'S TRADE METHODS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10241, 2 September 1909, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND'S TRADE METHODS.

A CHINESE CRITICISM. (Per Press Association.) Palmerston North, September 2. Hwang, the Chinese Consul, is not enamoured of New Zealand's methods of fostering trade with foreigners, especially with the Far East. He con siders" that there are many things which New Zealand cc-uld supply in large quantities to China, but the only trade done with that country is by a few Chinese merchants; for instance, such things as fungus, shark's fins, and beche de mer, which are esteemed as sucli delicacies in China are to be got readily in New Zealand, but none ot the merchants seem to think it worth while establishing a trade in such thiugs, while little is done in the more common products —mutton, beEf, and wool —which would find ready markets in China. . , . Mr Hwang spoke of the casual way in which New Zealand conducted business with foreign countries. "The New Zealand people don't seem to know how to trade," he said to a Standard reporter yesterday; they rarely if ever sock trade, ana any trade done with a foreign country is the result of the work of the agents of those countries and not through any effort on the part of New Zealand. The yare content to send exports to Englishspeaking countries and have got an idea that they can keep it among themselves; that is not good business.