LOST TO NEW ZEALAND.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14407, 18 May 1917, Page 3

LOST TO NEW ZEALAND.

TRADE WITH THE ISLANDS

An. In.vercar.gill business man, Mr Quxnn, who has just returned from a trip to Fiji, contributes an interesting .account of his experiences to a Southlaud paper, in the course of which he refers to the enormous trade in general n<erchandiso done with the Islands, practically all of which is lost to New Zealand, "inasmuch as almost all the stocks are. drawn from Australia. A New Zealand 'commercial' is a .rarity in Fiji, and the same holds good in Samoa'and other islands of the Soutli- ; crn Pacific where trade is done. Jn- ■ deed the one New Zealand line wliieh •ivppfiaTs to he the exception is Auckland; tinned meat. New-Zealand-grown and spun rope is also extensively used, 'hut ib is hpudit through Sydney nnd Melbourne/ This import trade of the Islands concerns all lands of groceries and general merchandise, timber, especially, hemp- at a premium in Samoa. | The 'worth whileness' of wholesale firms including; the Islands in * their travellers' circuits ip shown by a little drenmstance w"hi"h Mr Quinn relates. By the boat on, which he journeyed to Ss>moa there fcrnyellpd a wholesale man. The trip from Suva occupied eiprH days return and the. "fvme the. traveller had in Ania (Spmon) was only 2£ hours. Yet he Tv^de the ioufney. n'nd wns well voT)aid since for that C2\ hours' Tvnvl- 1P loop] iTnsirjoss rrin''i jva-s *250n.wovfli of^y>rders. ; Tlvs on for) nf +1'" f-rt. that o'->!tj a. 1)1017+.^ •nrpvion^ly tho 'pnivmpr'oipT ■ Imrl . left Vpia p^h"" Min'khitt it his hofirJonnHors f^v a nimi--I#ir li^-i'od. T*ni-th'"'rior«, the same (-,)•:-"-"Ho?- nPiVI-'.n vi^it +0 P^e of thrt «'"a]lf>r j&l"'n(]« t-^ovo, *o i^^ ons'i."! obsprvpi", if v.-o'i^fi h™ Ti^Tx-icoii^^ -f o { i , bin-i->p.t^ In il) O vif n0 ho OX-1-M-- For -QPPf) ivo'^li rf croorK Th^1 nnv*- lint iii-.i-+«; "o ■"■.it al] that Int&iness 1 went to Australia.''