TRADE WITH THE EAST

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1930, Page 2

TRADE WITH THE EAST

markets in japan. new ZEALAND TEXTILES. After an extensive tour through the North Island Mr. J. Watanabe, a Japanese shipping representative, left Auckland for Sydney by the Ulimaroa last week. In an interview Mr. Watanabe said the purpose of his tour was to supervise the inauguration of a Japanese shipping service to New Zealand. Dominion exporters appeared to realise that if the products of primary industries were to be absorbed new territory had to be opened up to keep pace with the steadily increasing output, and, like America, it was on the Far East that their thoughts rightly centred. China and Japan provided a potential market for textiles and New Zealand was capable of supplying materials of exceptional worth, which were at present unknown in the East. Mr. Watanabe stressed the value of “personal contact” in international commerce and said that although correspondence might bring eventual results it was a slow process and not as effective as direct representation. A direct shipping route to Japan should be of benefit to New Zealand exporters, especially as it was intended to provide a carrying service second to none, by using modern oil-burning vessels constructed for speed and safe stowage.