NEW MARKETS FOR PRODUCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12420, 1 August 1902, Page 5

NEW MARKETS FOR PRODUCE.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright, SYDNEY, July 31. (Received' July 31,.at 10.53 a.m.) Tho Government Trade Agent, in his last roport, shows the possibilities of a market at Timor for supplies to the Portuguese soldiers. Tho commandant there would bo pleased to receive samples ami prices of (lour, butter, sugar, jams, preserved meats, and boots. At present ho draws his supplies from Portugal and Hongkong. Merchants wishing to try for the trade should address all communications to the Empreza Agrieola Industrial Uniae, Timor..

The- above eablo recalls tho reference made by tho Into Sir Julius Vogcl in his Financial ."statement of the 1654- session to tho possiIwljlyof trade with the islands in the Am- .?? , • °" tlmt "ccasion Sir Julius snid: A few weeks since my old chief and fnond Sir William Fox, just as he "a, 'embarking from Queensland for England wrote me, in that felicitous language which comas so naturally to his brilliant pen, that lie was convinced that New Zealand should make a great effort to seek out markets, for ■ts produce m the islands of the South Seas ami m India. I believe with him that a great export trade is one of the objects we. should keep m view. Let us sco some of Mio obvious product* we havo to send away. The frown meat industry is in its very infancy and, though now we only send it to' JwglaiK. do wo not know that to India jnd the .stands teeming with population in the Indian Ocean and Arnfura Sea New /f?alaiid mutton would ho a luxury' p jU t King fehcep does not stt,i at providing food, fcinco I have been m New Zealand I have 'truck with tho wngiJarbeanly of „S woollen febna winch are beinjr made in tl o colony, and at prices, which, I am assured would enable those to be ported, New Zealand should a'spirlt send- '" ° n X , its . '"'""ifacturel state, m tho shape of fabrics." The siurgest.on was ridiculed at the time, but it would appear that Sir Julius vu only ton far.see.ng W lhe general understating.