AUSTRALIAN GOODS

Southland Times, Issue 19330, 15 September 1921, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN GOODS

NEW MARKETING COMPANY POSSIBILITY OF DUMPING (Special to the Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. The possibility of Australian goods being dumped into New Zealand is threatened in connection with the formation of a company in Melbourne which is to carry on the business of buying and selling agents for manufacturers and importers in the Commonwealth, New Zealand and elsewhere of all articles, goods, materials, provisions, and products, and to extend and develop the export trade of Australian leather and leather goods in particular. Mr J. A. Frostrick, from whom inquiries were made by a Star reporter to-day, stated that he had a copy of the articles of association. Said Mr Frostick :“It has great possibilities for Australia, but it contains an element of danger for the people of this country’. The object clearly is to get particular industries connected with the company, and for this company to handle surplus products of all the kinds described, all articles, goods, materials, provisions, and products, whether manufactured or otherwise; nothing is excluded. Whilst it provides that the company may trade within its own country, yet the main object is to exploit other markets, so that one of the objects is by combination the more successfully to compete with other countries within the limits of ordinary trading, but it w’ould be an organisation for the purpose of keeping their own market firm their own people fully employed, and unloading whatever surplus they might posse® in New Zealand or elsewhere. No ordinary trading arrangements can compete with this. They not onlv aim at this kind of business, but also desire to be selling agents for New Zealand manufactured goods in other countries.”