TRADE WITH THE EAST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 7

TRADE WITH THE EAST

NEW SHIPPING SERVICE IMPORTANCE TO N.2. (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. A Dutch steamship company is building a large cargo and passenger steamer for direct trade between New Zealand and the East. The same company already has two vessels trading directly with Australia, and now it has decided to extend the service to New Zealand. calling alternately at Auckland and Wellington. This information was given this morn ing by Mr. 0. Robenson-Smith, marine engineer with the Sarawak Steamship Co., who arrived by the Marama on a holiday trip to New Zealand. He stated that there was a big market for New Zealand goods in the East, particularly New Zealand dairy produce. A brand of powdered milk made m the Dominion could be obtained almost anywhere in the East, and was extremely popular. The advertising of New Zealand made goods was very well done, and a large number of tourists helped to increase the market for them.

"The tourist traffic from New Zealand and Australia to the East has grown enormously during the past few years,'' continued Mr. Robertson-Smith. "Many of them come up to escape the winter. Quite 50 per cent, of the passengers on the ship on which I travelled to Australia were tourists returning tn their homes after wintering in the East.