OUR BUSINESS METHODS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 603, 3 September 1909, Page 6

OUR BUSINESS METHODS.

; 'vi AS'MR: HWANG.SEES THEM..'.■ V-' ':'■.'• ,'vtßy Association.) \ .'. i::?.';?' ':•.Palmerstbn North, September 2. : .'Mr. Hwang,;;th6 Chiheso'Consul, is not enamoured'.'of .'New Zealand of fostering; trade.with;foreigners, especially:with the Far. East.- vv.He.'considers, thoro; 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 ; instance, such things as fungus/sharks' fins, and.hochb'de mory which*.aTe'esteemed, as siich delicacies, in China, are to be got.readily in New Zealand, but none/;of tho 'merchants 'seem" ; tp ;think' it .'worth.''thbir::'while_ establishing ;a trade.inisuch'thingsj 'while little is dono in tho ,moro>'common/'products—mutton, "beef, and wbod,'-.wbich'find ready markets iri' ; Cliin'a. ; Mr,;Hwang spo.ke.yof the casual 1 way. 'in whioh New-Zealand conducted business with foreign ."Tho-New Zealand-peoplo don't seem to: know how to trade," he said to : a "Standard" reporter yesterday.:' "They rarely r -if over, "seek trade. Any tfado done with a foreign country is the result of the work'of the, agents of those countries, and not 'through any.effort:on the part; of : New Zealand. ..yTheyaro content', to send .their'expprts to: English-spealjing. ,couh'tries;;-," and have got an• idea -that -they. 'can''-keep-..it :among the'inselyes.'. That is not good buai- .-■.-'' : ;''■;.•• : f, .;'■:' ;■' ''■ 'v .:.