VANCOUVER SERVICE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2996, 16 August 1911, Page 10

VANCOUVER SERVICE.

TRADE WITH CANADA. (Fbom Oub Own Cohrespondhnta AUCKLAND, August 10. Ample evidence is now forthcoming that through the inauguration of the new Vancouver mail service New Zealand will sdbn be able to develop a profitable trade with Western Canada, especially in frozen meat and other produce. Last summer a visit was paid to New Zealand by Mr J. K. Miller, representative of Patrick Burns and Co. (Ltd.), with a view to ascertaining the possibilities of purchasing New Zealand mutton for his firm. Patrick Burns and Co., who have large stores at Prince Rupert, 8.C., the new terminus of the transcontinental railway on the Pacific Coast, are, it is interesting to note, the largest meat distributors in Canada, having contracts or supplying the camps on the Grand Trunk railway tracks. Mr Miller, when leaving New Zealand on his return to Canada, took several samples of New Zealand mutton with him. He now advises Mr W. A. Beddoe, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, that Mr Burns was greatly pleased with the quality of the samples of New Zealand mutton, and adds :—“I do not consider there is any doubt that New Zealand mutton will find a place in the market here. I do not anticipate any shipments being made as soon as the service is inaugurated, but no doubt arrangements will be made for sample shipments as soon as the regular frozen mutton season for us gets under way. Such is about December. Our company is now building a very large addition to its Vancouver cold-storage, and is likely to be interested in handling butter in a large way within a year, when no doubt the quality of the New Zealand article will induce them to place some orders there.