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VESSEL FROM SWEDEN INDICATION OF INCREASED TRADE P.A. WELLINGTON, May 11. The first Swedish steamer, the Yarramonga, direct from the Baltic to New Zealand, is en route, via the Panama Canal, and will arrive In Dominion waters early next month.
Until now Swedish vessels have come by longer routes, usually via South Africa and Australia. The direct service, said the Consul for Sweden, Mr E. W. E. Kleen, is due to the increased trade between New Zealand and Sweden, the exports and imports in 1947 for both countries having been double the previous year’s figures. Sweden was no longer a hard currency country, and her trade agreement with Great Britain encouraged trade between Sweden and the sterling countries. The main increase in exports to New
Zealand, continued the Consul, was machinery products, such as mill saws, ball bearings, cardboard for butter boxes, and wood pulp products. Wood pulp was becoming scarcer in Sweden partly because of two dry summers. Much pulping wood was being used for fuel, and the size of Swedish newspapers had been cut by about 30 per cent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26770, 13 May 1948, Page 11
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