NEW ZEALAND PRODUCTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11399, 17 April 1899, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Mr Allsop, secretary to the Timaru Chamber of Commerce, has: handed to the Herald a circular letter whicli he has received for the chamber from Messrs Ritchey and Pollock, of Sydney, regarding the possibilities of increased trade between New Zealand and New South Wales, and some of the statistics supplied are extremely suggestive. The members of tho firm state .that they have spent 20 and 15 years respectively in New Zealand, and

" Theo. H. Rit-hey " is a name not unfamiliar in Timaru. The writers wish to bring under the notice of the Chambers of Commerce in New Zealand their proposal to establish'a central depot for the exhibition of New Zealand products and manufactures in Sydney, with a .view to advertising and in-, creasing .the trade of this colony. The statistics they append to their letter show that _X'ew Zealand could find a much wider market in New South; Wales than is done at present, but they say, "and very reasonably, that NonZealand must take the initiative in obtainiug j the extension. Numerous reasons, climatic and other,-'are given in support of the assertion that New South Wales nvust, at all events' very often, rely upon other places for much of her necessary supplies, especially in the way of farm prod.uels._and manufactures therefrom, and New Zealand is pre-eminently the placo from which such supplies should be obtained. As old New.Zealanclers, imbued with (his belief, they propose to establish a "commercial museum and depot for samples of New Zealand products and manufactures only." open to tho general public as well as to the trade, and in connection therewith to undertake a general agency, dealing exclusively in NewZealand products on business-like and energetic lines. . . The following statistics "collected from recent and reliable tiovernment sources," speak for themselves, and show that while New Zealand finds.a market for small quantities of many lines of her produce in New South AVales, there is room for a large expansion of tho trade in such . lines. The following figures refer to the total imports for 1897, and the proportion contributed by New Zealand: ' Total From linoorts. N.Z. Flour .. .. - .. .. £621,208 £80,897 AVoollens 526,508 5,723 Timber .. 391320 77,473 flay and chaff .. .. 213,466 7,153 Potatoes 191,168 10,886 AVheat 190,163 6,273 Fish, dried and preserved .. 126,407 1,032 Butter .. .. .. 120,885 51,657 Barley and malt .. .. 118,198 83,801 'fallow 108,393 15,605 Leather 75,143 . 4/747 Milk, tinned .. .. .. 63/169 791 Cordage 51,2-13 3,314 Pickles and sauces .. .. 47,469 52 Agricultural implements (excepting ploughs, reapers, and binders) .. .. 34,696 121 Ploughs 31,738 137 Preserved meat .. .. 30,183 1,960 Brushware and. brooms .. 29,359 6 Oatmeal .. .. .. 22,471 7,076 Jams and jellies .. .'.. ' 21,752 12 Rugs ' 18,332 1,045 Dried fruit 14,107 6 Farinaceous and milk foods 13,651 123 Egfß 13.227 8 Boncdust 11,776 170 Straw .. 11,606 2,033 Sheepwash .. .. 5,435 411 Sausage skins 8,265 161 Biscuits - .. .'. 5,176 nil Oysters .. .. 3,103 610 Honey ..' .. 1,356 26

A few other items which we omit make up a total of imports of commodities (now all produced in New Zealand) valued at three and a-half millions, of which a small fraction, over one-tenth, was obtained from New Zealand. '■

Messrs Ritchey and Pollock seem to think that JNfew Zealand ought to bo able to compete, especially with the United Slates and Canada, and a table is given showing the proportionate quantities and values from those countries and New Zealand, of 21 commodities which are produced on a commercial scale in this

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colony. These items totalled £903,905 from America, and £192,801 from. New Zealand. Tho principal items are flour, £385,687 from America, £80,897 from New Zealand; wheat, £165,362 and £6273; timber, £117,133-and £77,478. Tho timber, imported from America was probably of different nature from New Zealand woods, and our sawmillers are not far behind the American. Our agriculturalists were a long way in the rear in their share of tho wheat and flour imports. Even in such a thing as common soap, the Americans supplied £2820 worth, to New Zealand's £212 worth. In 1894 New South Wales imported from America £542,427 worth; in 1897 tha value was £1,887,877, an increase in four years of £1,345,450. In the same years the total imports from New Zealand were' £484,450 and £629,423, an increase of only £144,943. These figures show that New Zealand's share of tho duty of supplying the needs'of New South AVales, grew very little, whilst America's share went up by leaps and bounds.