NEW ZEALAND PROSPERITY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND PROSPERITY.

MR ELMSLIE IN ENGLAND. (From Ous Own Cobukhpondent.) LONDON, May 6. Mr N. F. Elmslio, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner, brings to England a good account of conditions in New Zealand, and tho facts in his possession should bo very useful in his contact with British manufacturers and merchants interested in tho export trado to New Zealand, Ho says that tho enthusiasm for British goods is such that purchasers will give up to 20 per cent, more in order to obtain Britiahmado in preference to foreign products. America and Japan, it is tmo, arc doing their utmost to exploit tho market, but Mr Elmslio believes they uro not malting any headway, and in tho matter of motor cars and agricultural and dairying machinery in particular there is still considerable scope for the exporter in Great Britain. Mr Elmslio says that from the point of view lioth of production and export, the dominion has had tho best year in her history. “In consequence of this prosperity,’* ho says, “Now Zealand is buying on a larger scale Hum ever before. Tho British exporter is now back in tho position ho held before tho war in the Now Zealand market. However, I shall point out that there is still room for improvement on tho part of British firms, particularly in tho export of motor cars. In every centre of New Zealand I was asked whv Britain did not send out oars suitable for dominion conditions. Certainly tho rigid- typos are now beginning to go out, and tho position has improved. During 1923 and tho first half of one in every 20 cars imported into Now Zealand was British. There lias been n very marked improvement since, and today tho proportion lias grown to ono in six.’’ ADVOCACY OF THE EXHIBITION. The information which tho Trado Commissioner brings of tho Now Zealand and South Seas Exhibition should bo useful in his contact with pros;>ective exhibitors, lie says it will certainly bo the best <yvo.r held in the dominion. ’“A number of British manufacturers have already taken space,” ho remarks, “but 1 shall emphasise the fact that any British firm that wants to hold its position in tho dominion ought to consider seriously whether it cun atlord to stay out. Continental, United States, Canadian, and Australian firms will all bo well represented. Although no Gorman firm is permitted to take space, there will be no ban on Gorman products being exhibited by local importore.” Business interviews with Air Elmslio oxo taking place daily at the Department of Overseas Trado.