NEW CALEDONIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21267, 23 February 1931, Page 10

NEW CALEDONIA.

LOOKING TO NEW ZEALAND. RECIPROCAL TRADE. (Special to Daily Times.) 1 AUCKLAND,. February 21. “ Blocked out of Australia by recent developments and by the tariff wall, New Caledonia is looking to New Zealand to see if there are possibilities for trade here,” says Miss D. Miller, of the Auckland University College, ■ who' has just returned from a holiday there. The island must have flour, butter, sugar, and cheese, and New Zealand can supply at least two of 1 those commodities. Hitherto New Caledonia has dealt with the Commonwealth, said Miss Miller, but they wera being blocked by the hostile tariff and by the depression in Australia. Members of the House of Representatives had asked Miss Miller whether it was possible for better trade relations to exist between New Zealand and New Caledonia.* On their part they were very anxious that it should be so, as it might mean their salvation. , They were struggling hard against 'overwhelming odds, and were prepared to do anything which might ameliorate the position. They would send a boat to New Zealand, via Norfolk Island, with produce from New Caledonia if given any prospects of being able to dispose of their produce.