NEW ZEALAND TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1925, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND TRADE.

MR. ELMSLIE IN ENGLAND. BUSY TIME IN PROVINCES. Mr. N. Elmsie, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner, has been in England for three months, and of this period eight weeks have been devoted te business tours in the provinces, his travels having covered all of the leading industrial centres. He has visited one hundred works and discussed business with the representatives of at least 250 firms in all branches Of trade. In advance of his arrival in each place th® local press announced that he was coming and mentioned that he would keep appointments with business men. A large proportion of those whom Mr. Elmslic met were people who have already got established connections with New* Zealand, but even so they were greatly interested to meet someone who could give them an accurate and impartial account of the condition of trade in that country and its possibilities for expansion. Probably one-third at leas't of th® remainder* were representatives of firms who had hitherto done no direct business with New Zealand, although their goods ma J’ have gone there through indirect channels. From information they already had received, they realised that New Zealand is a very desirable market, that its buying power is high, and its trading conditions safe, and they were anxious to find out whether they cannot introduce their goods directly into the market and get a share of the trade. Among the' firms representative of all classes °of manufacture. Nir. Elmslie found a great appreciation of the way New Zealand had placed her business in this country, a recognition that the Dominion is anxious to buy entirely from the Mother Country if possible; also, he found a recognition of the fact that trade with New Zealand firms i» equally as safe as trade with Homo firms.* The general impression prevail® that trade difficulties and bad debts are practically unknown there, and that outside the Home market New Zealand is the safest country with which to trade at the present lime. Air. Elmslie, in his interviews, found it generally realised how desirable it is for manufacturers t<» become personally acquainted with their markets. Without exception, the people he met either said they had lately visited New Zealand, or that they proposed going soon, or that they hoped to be able to find an opportunity to go later on. This, as the New Zealand Trade Commissioner realises, is a very desirable development, for closer knowledge between th® two countries is one of the most essential factors of the present day.