TRADE WITH CHINA.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 5

TRADE WITH CHINA.

;rirfi ctil>'ese consul's opinion Per Press Association. - ri PALMERSTON N., Sept. 2. Mr Hwang, the Clmieso- Consul, is' not enamoured of New Zealand _ methods of fostering trade withy foreigners, j especially with the Far' East. He considers that there are many, things which New Zealand could supply in large quantities to China,, but the,only... trade done with that country; is by. a few Chinese 'merchants;. - For in&tancc, such things as fundus, sharks' fins and beche-dc-mer, ■ < whicht are esteemed..... as ; delicacies 111 X3hina. are .to got readily in New -Zealand, but none of tlie merchants seem to think it worth while, establishing a trade in such thing s ;, gillie little is done in nioie common products—mutton, beef and wool—w huh would find * readv market in China. Mr Hwang cpoke-or the cn«ual way 111 which New Zealand conducted business with foreign tries. "The N<*w Zealand ueople don t <-eom to know how to tiadc " lie. said to a Standard'' renoiter yesteidnj. ' Thev rarely if ever seek trade. "Any ti.ide' dune'with a country is the icv-nlt of the work of the agents ol those countries, and not ..through anv efioit on the nart ot New 'Zealiiiid Thev are content to send ex-, noils to English-sneaking countries, and have got an idea that thev can keen it anions themselves. That is not business