WIDER MARKETS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13824, 22 September 1913, Page 5

WIDER MARKETS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

* AN IMPROVED OUTLOOK. (From Our Own Correspondent.l Wellington; Sept. 20. Now Zealand! s independence of the London market is.yearly growing. Attention is now being turned to America with profitable results, and in the annual report of the Department of Agriculture^ (which waa circulated privately among the members of Parliament early this morning) this satisfactory feature is- referred to. It is pointed out that up till recent years it was a common belief that it should always prove the most profitable course for New Zealand farmers to market their produce in Britain, and that London would always be the best | marketing centre. While nothing has occurred to weaken the position of London as the w°fhi'<3 greatest mar-| ket, the increasing industry of the farmers of other countries to meet the 1 local demand for food supplies, is presenting fresh avenues of trade, which promise to be temporarily &t least more reiuunerati/e than the London connection, while there is a growing feeling amongst some of our producers that other ports than London will provo more satisfactory for reaching British consumers. The new American tariff promises, says the report, to have a still further expanding r effect on our oxport trad©, and indirectly to strengthen the position of New Zealand cheese on tho British markets. With woo], meat, and dairy produce on the free list the effect on our wool trade should be highly beneficial. Our meat will have a now and important outlet, and Canadian cheese exports to Britain will probably decline even more than they have been doing of recent years, with the improved market for Canadian butter which the United States will now afford. What is taking place in the United States of America may not improbably be the fore-runner of a world-wide movement in favour of the removal of^ Customs and othor restrictions against foodstuffs. In the leading nations of the Northern, Hemisphere tho nbii-pro-xlucer is increasing out of proportion to the producing population., and the consequent expanding cost of food stuffs is emphasising the importance of removing tariff barriers on the iiece*;.sariea of life. The New Zealand farmer has. therefore, every reason to- regard the future with confidence.