MARKETS IN AMERICA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18239, 25 November 1924, Page 9

MARKETS IN AMERICA.

CHANCES FOR N.Z. AUSTRALIAN COMMISSIONER'S VIEWS. (special to "thb pasas.") WELLINGTON, November 24. Tho Hon. Donald MacKinnon is a passenger by the Tahiti from the. Lnited States, where he.has been acting as Trade Commissioner for Australia. To a "Post"' reporter, he said that their complaint in Australia was that the trade between Australia and America was unduly one-sided. A ustralia »vas the best customer that America had for motor-cars.

'Possibly," lie continued, "the American wool buying for tho next vear or two will go a long way to regulate the present balance of trade. We Australians havo to learn that there aro other things besides trade which may bo badly balanced, and wo must learn that tho great regard and admiration tor Australians and New Zealandera which can Ixj turned into a valuable asset tor u.s has to bo recinrocated.

"Ono very necessary development is increased travelling. The Americans '-•nice the war have developed what we Know in .Australia, in the language of tho aborigines, 'the walk about' tendency' tui<l they are like Alexander the Great—looking in their thousands for new countries to visit. New Zealand and Australia ought to co-operate for the purpose of inducing a stream of tourists to come to " the Southern Hemisphere. Wo must improve our hotel accommodation, and we must improve our transportation. A great deal can be done in the way of tjoii among hotelkeepers, and with enlightened' Government assistance, to make these Dominions' more attractive." He indicated l that there were great possibilities in connexion with the tourist traffic from the States and from Australia to New Zealand.

Trade Increasing. __ ''The trado between Australia and New Zealand: and America seems to me," added tho visitor, "to bo certain to increase, and) that very rapidly. My idea is that the proper' entrance for our products into America is through tho Panama Canal. We want to get trade from Australia and New Zealand to New Orleans, Baltimore. Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.

"California is a serious competitor with Australia in many lines. For example, in the New York .meat market you find a large quantity of Ca.lifornian raised la nil). The Americans are not big beef eaters. The manual labour class, who in most countries where they can afford it, are large consumers of beef and' mutton, in America are largely oS foreign origin. The workers in the steel industry come from Czecho-Slovakia, the workers on the railways, who do the heavy manual work, are Mexicans and Italians, and a good deal of the artisan work in connexion with the building trade, which is very active in America at present, is done by Italians. They have not yet learned to eat beef and mutton like the Australian and New Zealand workers. The middle classes do not eat much meat, because there has been medical propaganda against fleah eating, and they incline more to -consuming fruit and vegetables, salads, and fish. "The growth of the population . in America, even with the restrictive immigration laws, is still very rapid. It seems to me that they are catching iip their capacity to produce their own food. It will not be many years before there ara 150.000,000 people in the United States. They _ have a high standard of life, and it seems to me that they are bound' to look to Australia ana New Zealand more and more for the food which they require, and for much of the clothing which is necessaxv in & cold cliixia/t© sucb as theirs is during a great part of the year." Australians and New Zealanders, he said, occupied a good position in the United States, where their ability received more recognition than it did m their own country. .