TRADE WITH CANADA

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1931, Page 16

TRADE WITH CANADA

MARKETS BEING EXPLORED. WOOL, MEAT AND HIDES. In spite of the discouraging result of the Government’s negotiations for. a trade treaty with Canada regarding butter the market for other New Zealand products is being explored in the sister Dominion. The report of the Department of Industries and Commerce, presented to the House of Representatives on Thursday evening, announced that attention has been given by the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Canada to the development of our trade in meat in view of the recent recession in the price in New Zealand. Efforts have been made to find a market for finer qualities of lamb, and also for lighter weights of mutton. Some success has been already achieved in regard to sales of lamb, the first parcel to arrive being found eminently satisfactory in respect to quality. New sources of trade are being exploited in both Montreal and Toronto, and, aided by samples and the reports of the .New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, it is confidently expected that the business will steadily. In regard to raw wool the commissioner reports that the prospects for increased trade with Canada appear to be good providing no tariff changes are made. The qualities of New Zealand wools mainly in demand in Canada are crossbred 40’s to 50’s and halfbred 56’s to !58’s; also lambs’, of which quite a reasonable quantity has been sold recently. Crutchings should also be in demand later in the year, preferably in a scoured state. The demand for combings is small. Large quantities of New Zealand wool are sold in partially manufactured form to Canada from Bradford and from Boston. The market for hides and skins, both in Canada and the United States, has been fully explored, and every effort has been made to induce sales. Notwithstanding the decided setback occasioned by the cancellation of the application of the trade agreement,. and by the high duty against butter,, it is hoped that business in many primary products will improve. Our future bulk trade with Canada, assuming the existence of satisfactory tariff arrangements, appears to lie in sales of butter, wool, casings, hides, sheepskins, pelts and meat, particularly lamb. Limited and variable markets exist foi’ such commodities as fresh apples, hemp, frozen beef, casein, eggs, onions, pea’s, seeds, dried, and preserved, milk an/1 kauri gum.