The Star. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1901. AN OPPORTUNITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7088, 2 May 1901, Page 2

The Star. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1901. AN OPPORTUNITY.

! The next international exhibition will be held at Glasgow. In this capital of Scottish commerce arrangements are in progress for a display of those useful and ornamental products usually associated with enterprises of. this character, and the most careful provision, we are told, is being maide • for displaying the exhibits to the best advantage. Already mAny of the Continental nations have nearly completed plane which will ensure their beipg suitably represented. Russia, for example, has secured more than. 11,000 square feet of covered space, and diouble this amount in the open. Such an opportunity of meeting visitors amd buyers from Eastern Europe and Siberia ought not to be neglected by the manufacturers and producers of this colony. In the heart of the vast and sparsely-populated region known as Siberia, New Zealand has, we have reason to believe, found a market for her dredging machinery, amd although she cannoi hope to establish a large trade m this direction, the beginning she has made ought to prove an incentive to further efforts on her part. In several respects also the characteristics of Russian trade and that of this colony are identical. If, therefore, the' coronaeroial authorities of the Czar's Empire have considered it advisable to be represented in the Glasgow Exhibition, New Zealand should not pass the exhibition by as of no consequence. For it is of consequence! to vher, both from an Imperial and a national point of view. New Zealanders never weary of reminding one another that their mainstay is their foreign trade, and that the greater portion cf this trade l lies' with the British Isle*. It is to their interests not only to preserve this trade, but also to expand it &3 much as possible. Furthermore, it is evident that thfere ie no immediate prospect of Now Zealand joining the Australian Commonwealth. It therefore follows as a matter of course that competition between this colony and the Federated States will daily become keener, and the former can only he ; certain of maintaining her fcround in the struggle for the /world's markets by pushing: her products before the people of other countries. She can accomplish this in one way by taking advanfc&ge of the excellent advertising opportunities afforded by exhibitions suoh as that which it is proposed bo hold in Glasgow. It is to be hoped tha* the various Chambers of Commerce throughout thia colony. will take this view of the matter, and unite with the Government in sending a worthy sample of the products and manufactures of New Zeat land.