SOVIET UNION.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18804, 28 November 1932, Page 9

SOVIET UNION.

TO PURCHASE IMPLEMENTS. N.Z. FIRM READY TO SUPPLY.' The Department of Agriculture of the Soviet Union has invited Dominion manufacturers to submit particulars, illustrations, and prices of agricultural implements and details of the maximum quantities they are prepared to .contract for, and one New Zealand firm has replied to this invitation by slating its willingness to supply up to £200,000 worth a year. The manager of the Arm has recelv-

ed a 'letter from the New Zealand agents for all Russian products, stating that 'the Soviet Government was prepared to foster reciprocal trade with New Zealand in consideration of the sales of Russian goods being made, and also because of the contract made for supplying a petrol company with Russian petrol, which the agents expect to see in New Zealand toy January. “The Soviet Union,” says the letter, “has been buying considerable quantities of 'agricultural implements such as tractors, ploughs, harrows, drills, sowing, winnowing, seed planting, and many other typos of machines, implements and tools used In agriculture. Their purchases have been made with U.S.A., and lately more so with Great Britain. The Agricultural Department has now said that it is prepared to deal with New Zealand, and Invites offers of machinery which this Dominion can manufacture in quantities with the view to purchasing such implements as may ■he found suitable. There is a great deal of activity taking place In the development or I Eastern Siberia, and as there is a line | of steamers running a monthly service from Japan to New Zealand, it would be very easy, and it is Intended to extend it to Vahlivostoek. . . If anything is done it will no doubt he ,on as large a scale as New Zealand .manufacturers can cater for. ... If tilings go as wo have planned and previously submitted to our principals, we see no reason why your plant should not be occupied for a considerable .period, as the U.S.S.R. is really intent ,on keeping on opening new lands for the belter settlement of the vast population." The agents have been informed that Ihe (Inn is prepared to supply up lo £■200,000 worth of Implements a year, ■ •and catalogues covering the inanui lac lures of the firm have been sent, i