TRADE WITH JAPAN.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13747, 9 April 1915, Page 5

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

[United Press Association.]

Wellington, April 8

The Japanese Trade Commissioners were entertained at luncheon to-day by the Chamber of Commerce. . In -the course "of an interview Dr. Miura stated that the desire of the Japanese was that existing trade reScSied, it was felt that there was room for a great improvement in tnw Resent mean&s pi getting New Zealand produce into .Japanese markets.. i£ was recognised that transhipment charges incurred on exports from this country \4 Japan via Sydney must be a handicap. At the same time the trade at present was not sufficiently larßfi'for the establishment of a regulaAervioe: but' the possibilities of expansion were fully recognised,^ and it had been proposed that a, line^should be run from Japan to . New, Zealand via-the Solomon-'lslands.