BOOSTING NEW ZEALAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10924, 13 November 1913, Page 5

BOOSTING NEW ZEALAND.

CHRISTCHURCH MAN TALKS TALL. "We wish to. send you our butter and meat and >ou eiin send your timber and 'grain back in the ship that ti.uugai our products," said Mr J. B. Clarkson to a representative of the '"Vancouver Province' recently. "1 am an imperialist," he continued, " and believe that all colonies of the Empire should do "as New Zealand doos. We export the greater portion oi our products' to Great Britain and in return our imports come mostly from tho Old Uounuiy. in my opunou, 'we should do all our trade with British colonics. Last wear ivic-w exports ' amounted to £24,000,000, while ttvr . • . "New Zealand exported and elaughtereu u ported from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 lam us, bd per cciiu ui which wciu* t,o England. Canterbury mutton is the fiuttot 111 the world, aud the Old Country takes thousands of carcasses every year this. tin. 'Vu.s meat." " Money is tight in New Zealand as elS6Wlit.lv, UUc kiiCiO lo ClioUfelt UllU ' pltrh \ i„r su-aighc legitimate business. " Canada's trade with New Zealand is growing fast/' added. Mr Clarkson. I !< We want to trade with you and our I position under the southern cross with the seasons directly opposite to yours, gives us a chance to sell our butter to advantage. /iustiana send you, or can send you, the same products as wo ourselves produce, and "we in New Zealand want the subsidy to the ship-, ping company increased. The R. M. S. Niagara is only the beginning of more skips of that size which will be placed on the run and that is what we want." Mr Clarkson's home is in Christ* church, says th© " Province." He is one of the largest motor-car and bicycle dealers in the Antipodes. He is en route to England (his twelfth trip to fihe British Isles. He has left for Seattle on his way eastward. He expects to be back in Vancouver in January on his ?*turn journey.